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Amazon trying to push rightwing propaganda because I'm shopping for ant bait.. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world to c/wtf@lemmy.world

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 67 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've recently gotten into collecting pocket knives. Most knife makers are pretty staunchly right-wing, so my Amazon and YouTube recommendations are also loaded with drivel like this. It's frustrating that even innocuous items like these are politicized everywhere.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I got into ham radio. I have to be careful to not click on videos by preppers lol.

[–] PrinzKasper@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

Just FYI, you can easily delete videos from your YouTube watch history, and then you will no longer get recommendations based on the videos you deleted.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Open in private windows. If you want to learn about wood gasifiers, about half of those videos are made by right-wingers.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago

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.