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Comment Re: Not really a surprise (Score -1, Troll) 192

Nope. Sorry. Only 36% of African Americans are vaccinated and 41% of Latinx. You cannot blame Republicans. And they are not watching Fox News because Fox News is racist, right? But I knew rsilvergun would be first out of the gate with a hateful political comment! Classic rsilvergun hate! Can you feel it? Pay your rent rsilvergun. It is the end of the month. And your daughter says to stop calling her and complaining about life.

Comment Re:Yeay! (Score -1) 220

Rich, privileged people like you are always happy to institute new taxes. They barely affect you. It might add another $1000 on your Tesla. But for the poor and lower middle classes it hurts a lot. They pay more for their daily goods. And don't say you aren't rich: you own a Tesla. That puts you in the top 0.01% of the world in terms of income.

Comment Re:The REAL problem (Score -1) 81

Um, like I said RECOMMENDATIONS ARE BASED ON YOUR PROFILE, NOT JUST THE LAST VIDEO WATCHED. Your profile is based on your entire history + other data they collected about you. So it wasn't the Garfunkel video that triggered it. Probably the Millennial who installed the plugin watched a lot of political videos in the past so eventually another one was recommended to them. Obviously the people who installed the plugins are anti-Trump zealots so they got Trump videos recommended to them.

Comment The REAL problem (Score -1) 81

The real problem is hidden in the end of the "article":

In another instance, a person watched a video about software rights and was then recommended a video about gun rights. So two rights make yet another wrong YouTube recommendation right there. In a third example, a person watched an Art Garfunkel music video and was then recommended a political video entitled “Trump Debate Moderator EXPOSED as having Deep Democrat Ties, Media Bias Reaches BREAKING Point.”

So what is the problem here? Recommended videos aren't just based on the previous video watched. It is based on a profile of you. If you are interested in software rights, you might be interested in gun rights, or human rights, or something similar.

Albeit, in a number of the examples cited in the report, the confusion is leading YouTube users toward content with a right-leaning political bias. Which seems, well, curious.

Ah, NOW we get to the crux of the issue. We get it guys: you want to stifle any expression of what you consider "right-leaning". Do not pretend that you are scientists, doing a study. You are a bunch of Millenials who installed a browser extension.

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