Comment on “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 19 hours agoAlgorithms aren’t that smart. Maybe there needs to be general education about how they work so people will understand that viewing a video is like searching for a topic in google so people will understand how much control over what they see and use the technology appropriately.
If you watch a video about anorexia that’s like typing “Anorexia” in Google or pressing 9 on a remote control, you’re getting channel 9. That’s why to me this sounds crazy. It’s like someone complaining their TV keeps pushing the cooking channel at them.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
You used to be able to see what Google thought about you.
myadcenter.google.com/controls
Can’t check myself if they still do but on the advertiser end they definitelyet you target
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Sure, google knows I’m a 50+ year old man but YT isn’t pushing me a bunch of videos about retirement and how to keep the damn kids off my lawn. If I made a new account and it knew nothing about me, it might. But right now it knows I’m interested in obscure early 20th Century comic books and early 70s horror anthology shows.