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I never click on them and I don’t consume any other content related to those countries but every so often I’ll see an anti (those countries) headline in my feed and then the next few days will have pro occupied China stories

It feels like targeted propaganda since I never see good stories about the other countries and it makes me wonder why YouTube hasn’t been broken up if they are too big to monitor that

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Are they actual video recommendations by YouTube or are they adverts disguised as videos.

If the are the former press the 3 vertical dots next to the video and select not interested or don't recommend thos channel.

If they are the latter go into your Google ad centre and turn off advert personalisation.

If you still get them, purge your watch history.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Actual videos but no account to block them

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Are you watching videos about Asia?

YouTube always starts recommending far right authortian content, because if someone watches that stuff, statistically they'll watch a lot of them. Without an account, they're just exposing you to them hoping you'll bite and get hooked.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Potentially recipes from Asian channels but yeah, just annoying algorithm

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

It started doing it to me the other day as well and I have a 10 year old account with 0 Asian watch history

South China Sea News and some fucking DPRK News with this "so cute weather girl" and gross propaganda in the comments

Blocked it but no idea where the recommendation came from

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Whatever videos you're watching are subject adjacent to these videos.

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