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YouTube has been recommending me pregnancy videos for over a year now. My youngest child was born in 2006.
My ads have slowly been progressing from medicine to planning your own funeral before you die, in order to save the hassle from your near and dear. Sometimes I wonder if The Algorithm know something that we don't.
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I do not think I would necessarily have more of a practical idea what to expect out of a "recommendation service" than "Gazette". Sure, it's related to recommendations in some way, but that might as well be next to useless technically. A 10 minute introduction on the various services and one could get their head around them even with silly names. Are you bothered your webserver is called nginx or by curl or grep or g…
curl, grep and cat all have specific names that make sense. curl: cURL (library) grep: g/re/p "globally search for a regular expression and print matching lines" cat: as in, concatenate Gazette is just meaningless.
Reddit is literally the last organisation on Earth I would take engineering advice from. I appreciate they are operating at a very large scale and that has its own challenges, but it is by far and away the worst engineered product I use. I really do mean from soup to nuts, Reddit is just garbage software. The modern front end is obviously and plainly terrible. The backend is slow and suffers very frequent downtime, o…
I didn't realize that Reddit even recommends you content. And I can't tell the difference between before and after these recommendations are coming in. The blog post feels like one that Youtube made about their recommender system and how it improved but, their recommender system doesn't work. Reddit has been sort of this weird place where they face the issues that Digg and Twitter have and want to slowly transition i…
Reddit's recommendations are total garbage. But YouTube is actually even worse. For instance, Eddie Van Halen recently died. So I clicked on a few links from Twitter to check out some concert highlights from his life and career. Now my entire YouTube recommendations feed is nothing but Van Halen and 1980s rock music. The Go-Go's recently got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I clicked on a few links from…
Youtube's recommendation engine is to get you click on it and watch a certain percentage.
It's not designed to show you things that you "like." It's way more sophisticated than that.
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YouTube has been recommending me pregnancy videos for over a year now. My youngest child was born in 2006.
My ads have slowly been progressing from medicine to planning your own funeral before you die, in order to save the hassle from your near and dear. Sometimes I wonder if The Algorithm know something that we don't.
Honestly, though, that is the ad targeting that people are scared of (I know I am), but I am absolutely unconvinced that's what it is. Whenever I need a fresh perspective on tracking, I turn off all of my anti-tracking things and adblockers and search for toilets. Everything you see after that is related to toilets like you're some kind of collector and hoarder of toilets.
I once looked at the little notification tray on the new Reddit UI and saw a recommendation for a post. It piqued my interest, so I clicked it. It took me to the subreddit, not the specific post. I tried clicking different parts of the notification, same result every time. I tried scrolling down on the subreddit (in the new UI, ugh) and did not the find the post after thirty posts or so. I tried to copy the title fro…
https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/neknjg/evolving_... Just in case you are also asked to install the app as a content gate.
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I'm not saying those linked comments are not authentic, but r/AgainstHateSubreddits does post hateful content on subreddits they want to get banned.
You're going to need to provide a citation for such a big claim.
Anecdotally, I used to mod a sub which suddenly became active due to a meme. I got messages from mods of different subs offering to help or asking me to make them mods. When I refused. the sub started getting reported for comments made by new users(Auto mod was not much helpful back then), The sub died out along with the interest on meme. If someone were to say there is a mod cartel on reddit, I wouldn’t doubt it one bit.
Such a shame to see what has happened to Reddit