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Am I the only one whose "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I almost never watch "shorts" but my suggestions for it seem to have an...uhhh...adult theme. I don't watch any such thing with YouTube. Does everyone see garbage like this?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I do something similar, but I guess scorched earth edition:

Only use firefox, no chrome or chromium variants
Never signed in to my google account (only have it to keep a gmail forward going for old ass subscriptions)
Have firefox configured to only keep whitelisted sites' cookies and data between restarts - google is not on that list
uBlock Origin

The last several months I started seeing that youtube screen "enable history to see recommendations" blank page when first landing, as if it was a punishment to me. It's not. I remember all the channels I like, and it's easy enough to keep checking back. So that blank screen is actually a nice bonus to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It's amazing how Google thinks giving you the content you actually want to see is some kind of punishment, especially when 90% of the other content is sweaty needs whining about how woke Hollywood is.