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thelastwave on Dec 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: ‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who ...

> open the site in incognito and go to the "trending" tab.

I just tried that and all of the top trending videos were something called "My Best Friends" followed by a long scroll of NBA videos.

rsync on Dec 23, 2020 [–]

Yes - I had the exact same experience - lots of "best friends" content and then NBA video.

I watched one of the NBA videos so, touché, youtube.

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