How to de-radicalize my mom's youtube algorithm?

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 1425 points –

She's almost 70, spend all day watching q-anon style of videos (but in Spanish) and every day she's anguished about something new, last week was asking us to start digging a nuclear shelter because Russia was dropped a nuclear bomb over Ukraine. Before that she was begging us to install reinforced doors because the indigenous population were about to invade the cities and kill everyone with poisonous arrows. I have access to her YouTube account and I'm trying to unsubscribe and report the videos, but the reccomended videos keep feeding her more crazy shit.

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Go into the viewing history and wipe it. Then maybe view some more normal stuff to set it on a good track. That should give a good reset for her, though it wouldn't stop her from just looking it up again, of course.

This is the right answer. Removing browsing history is an easy step with very big effect

This. Watch the majority report lol

Oh no! Sam Seder, what a fucking nightmare!

And now the song will repeat in my head, forever.