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?
YouTube is also guilty of this behavior. Every month it’s “got it, we’ll show you fewer shorts”. Zero. I want zero.
Instagram pulls this shit too. Clicking to block an account counts as engagement, so they throw more of that type of crap at you.
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"]The internet got a lot less annoying after I learned how to use uBlock Origin’s “Enter element picker mode”
I wish I had the permissions to install ad blocks on my work laptop. On the plus side, the kids I work with are learning that ads are to be disliked. When an ad interrupts something we’re watching, I go “booo.” Now one of my students does it, too.
At least I can consider it a form of inoculation - gotta teach ‘em young to resist the ever-present
brainwashing attemptsadvertisements.Me too, what is up with not having an adblocker or bring able to install one? So many ads pose security issues and not being able to block them is just annoying and unsafe.
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
I don’t have this problem on mobile. I use pipepipe and don’t sign in. No shorts. Simple list for subscriptions without signing in. Easily transfers to new phones. No ads.
I find the recommendations in pipe pipe are severely lacking though. How do you find new content?
Your clicks say no, but your algorithm is telling me yes. 😘
And is programmed by a far right tech bro programmer or apathetic yes-man who answers to one anyways yup.
Shit like this is why freetube exists. Subscribe to the channels you want to see, get only those channels!
Have tried to exterminate Jordan Peterson recommendations for years to no avail.
Really? I have managed to completely block a few channels from getting recommended, including one I didn’t want to block. Annoying thing is there’s no way to manage these blocks, only remove all of them at once.
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.
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.
Right, and it has nothing to do with right-wing media groups paying Youtube to disproportionately promote their content, no matter what
This isn’t at all what I implied. I really don’t understand the hostility here.
It shouldn’t be controversial to say that Google is trying to suggest videos to you it thinks you’ll watch. Their whole goal is to keep you watching as long as possible.
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.
I’m right in that age range and never see apt right stuff, but I have a lot of subscriptions and my account is over a decade old 🤷 I also watch a lot leftist media lol
I’m 48 and have never seen that right wing bullshit. Guess I just never tripped across whatever criteria is it beyond just age.
You gotta love how getting suggested content they don’t like from the recommendation engine means they’re a victim.
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.
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.
The best are those websites with 4 ads at once and at least one of them is a video as that auto plays.
Jokes on them, I just close and abandon the article. Fuck that.
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
https://www.mrfdev.com/enhancer-for-youtube
They know it’s addictive, and they’ve designed it that way on purpose.