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Block their access to propaganda channels. Don't tell them you are doing this. Make it look like it's malfunctioning, if you can. Expose them more to educational material.
Example: Swap fox sub with vox. Set the child lock on their tv. Domain filter facebook in their router or throttle the service to make it unpleasant to use. Set up url redirects. Get them a stack of dvds. Proper entertainment is better than propaganda. They watch that crap cause they are lazy and it's easy.
If they give up and switches to a more sane channel for their entertainment, politics or otherwise, you have succeeded.
The idea is to remove them from the constant barrage of propaganda from bad actors. If they stop hearing about "evil trans people" every ten minutes, they will probably become uninterested after a while.
My parent gets recommended right wing propoganda via youtube, and it's infuriatingly difficult to stop it. After I blocked Fox news, the algorithm will simply recommend Fox news videos and streams from innumerable other random channels that do nothing but that, and it becomes whack a mole.
I subscribed them to better sources, but even after deleting the view history, that shit always finds a way back.
I think the algorithm shit is why we have this right wing surge. People watch one right wing video and then their feed is full of it. I felt like the world was doing good, being progressive, then in the last 5 years everything has gone to shit.
Yep. Billionaires have always had their thumb on the scale, but they've now found a particularly effective scale to tip.
100%. I wish we could go back to being algorithm-less (whereby we simply have to seek out what we’re into).
Same. Feeds were mostly random or had generally popular things in, now its all fine tuned dogshit. Social media needs to die.
Without looking anything up; I would try solving this problem with a browser extention that can hide videos by keyword.
filter FOX, trans, woke and whatever else usually excites or makes them angry. Check their history for a list of things to filter.
If you wanna be extreme, you could redirect youtube to some other video hosting site. you might be able to block some domains to break the yt app but still allow the homepage.
if they are accessing yt through mobile apps, I would consider swapping it for an alternative yt app with the feature of keyword filtering. without checking if they have this feature, you could check out Newpipe, vanced, skytube.
At least you can turn off recommendations and search suggestions and only show subscriptions in the ui.
Do them the service of installing sponsorblock and ublock Origin, to make the browser experience superior to the official app. (also avoids propaganda ads)
I hadn't thought of a keyword blocker, but that might just be the ticket to solving it permanantly. Cheers for the recommendation!
Thank you for your advice. Unfortunately though, I don't live with my parents anymore. They seem to consume information mostly through telegram, news articles and Russian television. I wouldn't know how to shield them from those influences, I don't have access to all their accounts or devices.