Another possibility is not a hack but internal, by YouTube itself using a routine so broad and clumsy that it uses anything that seems to match something, to offer you anything it “thinks” may interest you.

Where might that be?

I’d suspect the jazz music – something in one of those, not obvious to you but soon spotted by the interrogation. The material it gave you might have been a lingerie catalogue, if the images were static poses.

What makes me think that is the way that searching for anything can fill the screen with all manner of links to commercial outfits having no clear connection to what you are really looking for.

I encountered this only yesterday when looking for the location of a church, to attend a funeral. I typed the official name of the church, but it was about a dozen items down the list, with nothing else the least bit relevant despite putting that name on the link it was displaying.

I am not certain what my computer uses and I do not deliberately use Google; but isn’t YouTube owned by the same shower that owns Google? They are all one huge cartel of just a very few US companies.

Youtube bases the video’s on stuff it finds in your history. I watched 1 video about a 3d printed sock knitting machine and the next time i logged in there were loads on my pages. So go to the history page and remove it and they all disappear.

I had problems with the autoplay feature ages ago. When you hover the mouse over a video it would start playing. That got recorded in the history. That would then have a effect on the login page.

So click on the menu bar top left hand side and select history. See whats in there. Remove any unwanted stuff and see what happens

regards

Steve

Chris had same thing happen to me !

H

Interesting graph: China and America being the top two is no surprise, but I thought Russia would be much higher, and North Korea in there somewhere.

On 14 May 2024 at 23:22 Nigel Graham 2 Said:

Interesting graph: China and America being the top two is no surprise, but I thought Russia would be much higher, and North Korea in there somewhere.

The graph (which is for 2021), logs number of incidents rather than their effectiveness.   Russian criminals may not be as active as the Chinese, but what they do is sophisticated and profitable.   A low-end hack might result in a shower of unwelcome but mostly harmless adverts, whilst a high-end hack harvests seriously big money, for example by encrypting an organisation’s data and insisting on a large payment for the key that unlocks it.

A cyber attack originating from somewhere like North Korea is likely to be state-sponsored, organised by well-funded experts, for some political purpose ranging from espionage to cyber-warfare.  Quite different from a Nigerian Prince trying to get into your bank account, or  spotty youth pushing against authority.

It’s all very murky!  Best thing we can do is keep our guard up.

Dave

I have Alexa, Cortana,  google assistant and everything else supposedly turned off that I can find. The same stuff happens to Me. Just try talking about something obscure and watch what turns up.

MIL died in a nursing home way out in the country 50 miles from Her specialist Doctors. As soon as the nursing home reported Her deceased all Her files and future appointments were wiped from the books. I called the Doctors too cancel appointments and it took several Doctors before Someone told Me what had happened. Talk about Government over reach!