cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2044512
I made sure to remove cookies and not sign in so I think these are the base suggestions made by youtube.
Capitalism
Yeah, what about it?
YouTube makes money by showing ads on videos people watch. If they show people the videos they want to watch, they get to show more ads before someone stops watching YouTube for the day. This incentives YouTube to surface the videos that people will watch for the longest time with no regard for anything but their advertisers’ willingness to have their ads played on said videos.
Also it’s expensive to moderate a platform so big that one in three humans uses it.
Thank you, I think your answer is much better. Still I don’t think “Capitalism” is an informative answer to why/how these search suggestions work.
https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/product-features/recommendations/
tl;dw: It’s what other people are searching for.
oh god that’s terrifying
Engagement. Hate promotes engagement and therefore is very profitable
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Have we forgotten about the LA riots?
I would not stop for protestors either.
I haven’t. People were justified in their anger, and let that anger out in the way they could. That’s why you shouldn’t give people a reason to be justifiably angry and instead meet the needs of the people without abusing them. The acquittal of those cops told people that the law didn’t apply to law enforcement. If the law doesn’t apply equally, why should it be viewed as anything other than tyranny?
Ah, because every protest results in mobs attacking people and breaking things! Nice generalization there.
