Anyone else ever noticed how there is no longer an option to permanently reject or completely disable an option anymore?
Every 3 weeks I get a popup in MS teams (yeah I know, but it’s for work, nothing I can do about it), that asks me if I want to pin the AI agent tab and the only option is yes please or remind me later. What the actual fuck is this shit?
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If a software monopoly that is too large and important to society to be dismantled or avoided, and it uses that power to abuse its users and defy regulation, shouldn’t that company be nationalized?
If a human being tried consent this way, they’d be a sex offender.
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I’ve suddenly been getting regular Windows notifications from Adobe asking me to set them as the default PDF app.
Very annoying when I use Adobe reader once a month or so to sign documents.
YouTube is also guilty of this behavior. Every month it’s “got it, we’ll show you fewer shorts”. Zero. I want zero.
Modern internet is impossible to use without a copious amount of plugins. Every website has some fucking cancer that needs to be removed in order for a site to be even remotely useful.
I wonder if YouTube lets these plugins through because it doesn’t want to attract antitrust suits
I think they just didn’t allocate enough resources to combat it yet. They tried to stop it couple of times, unsuccessfully
Youtube is worse. If you click “dont recommend this (far-right rage-baiting) channel” it says okay, and then leaves you alone for perhaps a week.
After, right back to square one as that channel is in your recommended feeds
Have tried to exterminate Jordan Peterson recommendations for years to no avail.
Your clicks say no, but your algorithm is telling me yes. 😘
Shit like this is why freetube exists. Subscribe to the channels you want to see, get only those channels!
I’ve never gotten any right wing recommendation. There’s something you’re watching that makes that recommendation happen.
These algorithms are not solely based on the things you watch. I believe it’s also based on your location and even close contacts. So if, hypothetically, I live in shithole Trumpistan with my racist uncle and he likes watching Hitler Youth “own the libs” then YouTube will recommend it to me too
victim blaming, love it
As someone who also doesn’t get recommended right or far right content, it’s not victim blaming to say that the algorithm thinks they want to watch those kinds of things.
The algorithm is shit. But there’s something about their activity, when filtered through the algorithm, results in those suggestions. This is just a statement of fact.
Right, and it has nothing to do with right-wing media groups paying Youtube to disproportionately promote their content, no matter what
My theory is that if YouTube profiles people as likely 18-45 yr old male, then they shove right wing propaganda down your throat even if you don’t align with it in any other way based on subscriptions/search history/etc.
It’s not necessarily their activity though.
The algorithm will include one’s demographic, location, the things the people around you watch, and other things.
People ITT do seem to be taking “something about their activity” more harshly than it was meant. An innocuous video like fly fishing will lead to right wing content.
Fit me for a tinfoil hat, if you’d like, but I don’t think it’s just about what they think you want to watch. These services are controlled by right wing techbro nut jobs and use their platforms to proselytize.
No, you’re just being an ignorant fuck, and yes, victim blaming.
All it takes is getting “news” as one of the terms feeding in to it, and you end up with those fucks getting recommended. It has absolutely nothing to do with questionable watch decisions unless you’re such a massive troglodyte that you’d blame someone for clicking on anything remotely correlated with current events.
You gotta love how getting suggested content they don’t like from the recommendation engine means they’re a victim.
You can remove them with custom uBlock rules:
www.youtube.com##:matches-path(/)a#thumbnail[href*="/shorts"]:upward(7) www.youtube.com##:matches-path(/)a#endpoint[title*="Shorts"]
