What the expostulation

[cimorene]

The YouTube algorithm is such virulent toxic waste that even though I've listened to nothing on my work account but instrumental classical music, it's trying to recommend Jordan P/terson and his racist covid conspiracy theories.

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[princessofgeeks]

WTAF

[stranger]

I listen to very little but instrumental music (the rest is choral work and opera), but the YT algorithm appears to be set to throw in a random batch of examples of stuff that's either current news or weirdness memes anyway. I train it by clicking on lots of instrumental music even when I don't have time to listen to them all, just one after the other. This seems to improve the proportion of interesting relevant music that shows up. Sometimes it's even new recent performances, or even first performances of rediscovered scores.

[cimorene]

I thought it might be something like that, but that in itself is a self-evidently terrible idea. I mean, hindsight is twenty twenty and all that, but I'm fairly confident that if I'd heard that idea before I'd heard about all the horrible stuff the YT algorithm does I'd still have said "Wait, you can't do that. That's a terrible idea!"

[phosfate]

Ewwwwww.

[laurenthemself]

That's grossissimo.

I use Deezer and pay for premium because it lets me exclude artists and tracks and, as someone with musical PTSD triggers, that's very important to me. If you have specific classical artists you like, I'd be happy to see if Deezer offers them, in case that would be a viable alternative?

[cimorene]

No, I'm totally happy not streaming music at all in my normal life. I was just using youtube at work because I can't be logged in as myself on my work desktop. It lets me use the speakers on the computer instead of playing music I own from my phone. I don't have artist preferences with classical music really, I just look up composers or pieces I think might be nice, and I mostly play classical there because it's safe if somebody walks into the office and I can't reach the computer to turn it off or down.

[laurenthemself]

Oh, I see! In that case I hope it stops doing the racist thing.

[lobelia321]

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