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Currently in the US elections are featured in my YouTube feed, and not factual content but rage inducing.

How can I filter that?

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[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think that would give you the worst content on YouTube in your feed...

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It literally turns off that feed you're talking about?

“How do I get rid of political recommendations filling my feed”

At the extreme end - turn the feed off entirely. Then you dont get a homepage filled with political recommendations.

What am I misunderstanding?

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Sorry, I thought turning off the history tracking lead to YouTube giving you a homepage full of the top trading videos? Like if you don't log in with an account?

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hence why I included a screenshot of what my homepage shows. Is that not loading for you? There are problems with different lemmy clients not showing images.

imgur link to the same image https://imgur.com/a/NG4ITcx

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah I didn't realize that's what your homepage would just be permanently. I thought it was showing a message you get after turning off the tracking, based on the context. I now remember hearing about that changing recently, but it's definitely not the way it used to work.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

This is a more recent change.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

If you turn off history you get nothing these days. Or at least that is what I get with firefox and the default ublock. Or maybe google slows loading down and I just don't wait long enough for them to pobulate the homepage.

It doesn't matter as I access youtube by subscriptions only. I don't have time to watch all the videos of interest there, much less scroll for something random.