• Daak@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I get what google does, but I find the trade-off the be really convenient.

    A funny creepy story I have is that I used to use a specific video to go to sleep, and apparently yt’s algorithm got so good at figuring out my sleep schedule that it would start recommending me that video when I started getting ready for bed.

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      1 year ago

      recently youtube shorts started recommending me “alpha male” andrew tate videos despite me constantly ticking the “don’t recommend this channel again” posts and i guess in response spotify is now recommending me Karl Marx audiobooks

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        1 year ago

        This is hilarious. I hope their code is literally something like

        if (user.pref == hate("andrew tate") 
        { 
            user.is = "communist";
        }
        

        I wouldn’t even be mad.

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        1 year ago

        If youtube figures out that you’re a single male, nothing will stop then from throwing Andrew Tate and other right wing garbage in your feed. Literally as soon as I got into a relationship I immediately stopped getting them. Now I get weird relationship based stuff. But it was so bad, I blocking channels but new channels kept getting in there.