the thing I hate the most are personalized ads and amazon suggestions that keep pestering you for weeks about an item you just bought and don't need anymore
Afraid to Google a thing because I don't want the algorithm to think I like it
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Re: Afraid to Google a thing because I don't want the algorithm to think I like it
#62Even in a tweet about algorithms the guy can’t help but dunk on men to show what a nice guy he is.
Weak ad hominem attack. Not sure why you wasted a comment for it.
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Click the three dots and then either "Not interested" or "Don't recommend channel". Seems to work reasonably well for me.
What if it's from a channel I like but don't want to watch that one video...will clicking on this reduce suggestions from this channel, will it do nothing, will it unsubscribe me from that channel(as has happened in the past), ...? Nobody knows, I only know I don't want to play this game.
Use Firefox multi-account containers and the temporary containers add-on. Now your YouTube starts fresh with every new tab. It's actually nice, it means you get to build a new set of recommendations each time you open a tab, and because YT doesn't have that much data on you yet, the recommendations are directly linked to the thing you're currently watching, similar to how it used to be before the whole tracking extravaganza.
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#64It's funny, just today I noticed how much worse is Google Now feed (or whatever it's called today) because it keeps repeating news items and category that I have very little interest in. It's almost like Google is trying to save money by computing less accurately for my interests.
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> Do you have an example of a search ... Due to the very topic this HN post is about, I don't think this is a good method - your results might be vastly different from mine. But let's look at the number of relevant results among the top 5 results for some thing I recently wanted to learn about. "Comprehension categories" - a rather specific term from category theory https://www.google.com/search?q=comprehension+categ…
You have to be explicit about the context if you've chosen to dump the implicit bundle of context. "comprehension categories category theory" 5/5 I'd hardly say it's 2 to 10 minutes extra work, especially for such an obvious example
"Comprehension categories theory" works as well.
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#66Even in a tweet about algorithms the guy can’t help but dunk on men to show what a nice guy he is.
I had a good laugh because that's actually a comment against the mansplaining common narrative, people will jump to explain things everytime they feel it's easy to add their contribute, being the audience a woman or a random guy on the internet or anyone they perceive weak enough to be a good target to show off their knowledge and skills
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#67Even in a tweet about algorithms the guy can’t help but dunk on men to show what a nice guy he is.
Weak ad hominem attack. Not sure why you wasted a comment for it.
I think your comment better applies to the tweet being referred to, though, not sure "ad hominem" extends to a group of unspecified people.
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#68I think Netflix is the worst offender. If you spend a minute too long looking at the menu for a movie it will not only auto play, but for the foreseeable future Netflix will assume you’re watching it, want to finish watching it and watch similar stuff. More than most other services Netflix doesn’t trust your ratings or your lists when making up recommendations.
You can delete half watched things from your history so they don't show up in the main UI
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#69It's annoying clicking some youtube link only to find it was something you really don't want more of, and then youtube proceed to recommend much more of it, even though you barely watched any of it. kinda forces me to watch something else that is new but at least somewhat wanted in an attempt to make the algorithm look at the new shiny i'm interested in and forget the previous one. i find it funny though when amazon…
You should use the dislike button to let the algorithm know that you didn't enjoy the video.
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another solution is to use 2 instances of chrome or firefox with different --user-data-dir which can run in parallel . It's actually very convenient for checking up stuff without 'messing' the main setup
Why not use the built-in profile functionality?
can you use them in parallel? in any case i don't want any correlation between the two (other than the IP i guess). in my case i often log in to the same website from different accounts for testing purposes