One creepy thing I’ve noticed about my Meta algorithm since I’ve turned off all my data tracking is now all my suggested videos are about people who are SO HAPPY they had 15+ children and I—
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What’s really creepy to me is YouTube’s algorithm. I deleted the app after it gave me a Prager U ad but entirely giving up YouTube is pretty hard so I go into the website without being signed in and the YouTube homepage without my history is genuinely scary to me.
it's gotten worse clearing my watch history weekly to reset my algorithm cause u even accidentally click one of those videos and 50 more pop up. Or eventually it just starts feeding them to you. All I see is that kinda stuff on my feed. After a reset i get like 1 week of benign laughs.
I’m getting a lot of backyard chicken stuff & the off trad wife thing. But the ads I’m seeing are unhinged. Couple of weeks ago there was a series of ads for embalming supplies.
I will admit to being a little goth, but not sufficiently goth that I require trochar buttons. (Previous winner of irrelevant Meta ads were the ones for industrial machinery used in the commercial processing of hazelnuts.)
I had to go to DC in December for a family thing, and suddenly I got tons of ads for literal missle guidance systems. Kind of horrifying, how many people are actually making these decisions while playing phone games?
If I end up on YT in a new browser for a random thing (usually “a how to fix the thing windows effed up” video), I get ten of that same format of RWNJ content. Sometimes there’s a specific name (Eastwood is shockingly common), sometimes it’s just “liberal student/reporter owned”. 🤦♀️🤬🤮
Pretty sure they are all psy ops at this junction. The ultimate thesis at it were would just be to expose it at this point. It's even happening here on bluesky, I have 90000 accounts blocked that are shit stirring accounts and puppets. It's cyber warfare on every platform and algorithm now.
Same! Nonstop reels on FB of pregnancy and pregnant women, usually with terrible husbands.
Doesn't matter how much I downvote or ex-out, they come back.
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On the rare occasion I purchase something online, it's done using a computer, and social media is a phone activity.
I also close FB after blocking. It's a small data metric I hope they track.
"Check out Ayn Rand decimating this liberal"
Doesn't matter how much I downvote or ex-out, they come back.