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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Delete all watched history. It will give her a whole new sets of videos. Like a new algorithms.

Where does she watch he YouTube videos? If it's a computer and you're a little techie, switch to Firefox then change the user agent to Nintendo Switch. I find that YouTube serve less crazy videos for Nintendo Switch.

This never worked for me. BUT WHAT FIXED IT WAS LISTENING TO SCREAMO METAL. APPARENTLY THE. YOURUBE KNEW I WAS A LEFTIST then. Weird but I've been free ever since

This comment made me laugh so hard and I don't know why... I love it!

in my head, I read it like someone was talking, and then had to start shouting over the sound of a train passing by, then return to normal volume as it passed

Or like someone whose SCREAMO METAL SUDDENLY TURNED ON AND THEY COULDN'T HEAR themselves thinking anymore.

change the user agent to Nintendo Switch

You mad genius, you