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Put in an old DVD of Dr. Strangelove:... recently in the XBox. It was just a random thought to pop it in and enjoy. (okay, was cleaning up shelf) I eventually realized I could skip around and enjoy the parts I liked. Freely. Without that feeling of being watched. Flashback.
Is your XBox online? Are you sure the DVD player doesn't report back what you're watching and how you're watching it?
This is exhausting.
I don't know how common this is, but I've gotten into the habit of creating "personas"-- different users that have different habits and are interested in different things, yet all me. It's insane that I feel it helpful to take on "multiple personalities", but there it is. Part of it is that these algorithms are fairly one-track. They can mix it up a bit, but it's always too much of one thing and too little of another…
You should abstain from googling politically incorrect ideas. It is possible that the state will require searches for for politically incorrect content be logged and used to create a profile on possible dissidents.
They only stopped because they got caught, and enough Google employees caused a stir about it internally. The executives who supported this project and kept its existence secret within Google are still with the company. Who's to say they won't try again, in China or any other country?
https://theintercept.com/2018/11/29/google-china-censored-se...
>Locating core parts of the search system on the Chinese mainland meant that people’s search records would be easily accessible to China’s authoritarian government, which has broad surveillance powers that it routinely deploys to target activists, journalists, and political opponents.
I use YouTube via RSS. My quality of life is incredible.
I'm mildly curious about the whole Jordan Peterson anti-woke movement. Mildly, as in, I'm interested in the arguments but I often don't agree with them. I once made the mistake of clicking on a Peterson YouTube video and subsequently got only obscene alt-right "Peterson KILLS stupid feminist reporter!!" type of edited content. Like at some point 80% of my suggestions was crap like that, drowning out all the lovely ne…
I think that in the future, having a way to tell the algorithm "I didn't like this" will be common courtesy. Especially as the algorithm becomes stronger, I.E. companies offload more and more curation to ML.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> And the people who are into it are generally really into it, so they'll keep watching hour after hour of it. Maybe that's the effect and not the cause.
I see it as a self-sustaining loop at this point. At some point the flames were lit and fanned, and now they've taken on a life of their own.
You should abstain from googling politically incorrect ideas. It is possible that the state will require searches for for politically incorrect content be logged and used to create a profile on possible dissidents.
What country do you live in?
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/can-government-look-yo...
It'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…
Put in an old DVD of Dr. Strangelove:... recently in the XBox. It was just a random thought to pop it in and enjoy. (okay, was cleaning up shelf) I eventually realized I could skip around and enjoy the parts I liked. Freely. Without that feeling of being watched. Flashback.
If you must use gmail, use imap. The only other “sticky” service they offer (that benefits from a login) is docs. So, use some other office suite, or keep a separate browser installed just for docs.
Problem solved, I think.