• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I’m a gun nut and I almost never get right-wing crap on YouTube. I’ve said this several times, and usually get downvoted, but I honestly don’t understand it. Maybe I’ve been on YouTube so long they get me?

    OTOH, I started looking at survival videos and could have fallen down a rabbit-hole of crazy.

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      YouTube isn’t as bad as Amazon is, in my experience. On YouTube, I’ll get recommendations mostly from self-defense “gurus” with their thin blue line flags in the background. But Amazon is a lot more aggressive, and will give me recommendations a lot more like OP’s, with links to conservative TV shows, books written by FOX hosts, shitty screen print 'murrican tee shirts, etc.