Google suicide prevention hotline

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Google suicide prevention hotline

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Look at what these sick fucks are doing now. Tracking the videos people watch and if they watch a lot of death videos, it puts up a suicide prevention hotline banner notification.

It's greyed out a bit because I have the "send feedback" pane up typing my complaint, but you can see it below the Sopranos video I was watching. Bloody creeps. I can't get it off my screen either, there is no way to dismiss it.

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They've done the same thing for certain searches I've had to do for work to get a better understanding for accuracy. They do it for mental conditions as well as alcohol and drug use searches. It does feel very offensive, other search engines don't do that.
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I didn't search for anything though, these are videos that youtube is presenting to me, in my main feed no less (not sidebar). Because they are what I like, of course. I love (re)watching the good parts of shows and movies.

There should be a Ublock Origin filter for these kinds of youtube notifications.
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That is especially bad when it's something they presented to you. Kind of like entrapment.
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Yes, what bothers me the most about this is that they have profiled me and their algorithms have decided that I'm disturbed. This didn't come from watching one video, I watch movie headshot compilations, death scenes from shows etc. pretty much every night (that they keep putting in my feed).
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