if they don't have any good information about you other than your location what else would you recommend rather than the most popular in that location?
When you lack the information to make a good recommendation, "the best we can guess from really generic or sparse information" tends to be annoying. That's really bad.
Yes, I watched a bunch of Dota replays during a recent tournament. No, I don't normally go on youtube. So I watched a daily show video clip that was linked. All my "watch next" and "recommended" are Dota. That's not smart, that's aggravating. I would have been ok watching a couple more ds clips, but instead exclusively bad recommendations were made based on poor data.
I dislike the idea that my world gets filtered by algorithms, but I really hate when they're obviously bad at it. Although I suppose I should be grateful that it's easily spotted when it's bad?