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to be a bit scared of the algorithms on youtube and what they're suggesting

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Chispazo · 25/05/2023 08:02

Ok, disclaimer, love youtube, always on it. My x boyfriend even joked, you've met the one (Youtube).

But...... about a week ago a youtube clip came up in my suggestions, ''how I first knew I had MS''. I didn't watch it, thought nothing of it. After a week of sitting at airports killing time with my phone plugged in and watching videos about court cases and escaping scientology and various psychology videos in Spanish and English, fasting regimens, weight loss, hormone regulation, the algorithms know me well. They tend to put up suggestions that interest me. Does my youtube know something I don't. I have another couple of these this morning. Now I'm thinking whaaaaaat ligh-thearted but also, wth?

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GreenIsle · 25/05/2023 08:16

The algorithms work the same on TikTok and to be fair they are usually bang on so I love it, however I do think if you even Google something that it picks this up. I have had a few weird ones where I have have talked to someone about something and it's came up in my algorithm when I have never looked it up on my phone so strange.

Chispazo · 25/05/2023 13:27

It's so weird, my uncle had ms and I was thinking about him recently but that is it. I didnt Google anything. I wonder if "tge monks fast 36 hours) is popular with people with MS.
Clutching at straws here.

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