jemorgan

@jemorgan@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve got a naive definition of ‘normal’.

  I’d say that the vast majority of people who stumble across a curated Andrew Tate clip and think that the very carefully selected soundbite resonates with them are “normal.”

  That’s the issue with deeply personalized targeted marketing. People get presented with a representation of something that isn’t accurate. Instead, it’s tightly tailored to be agreeable, which can result in “normal” people forming positive sentiments towards things that they’d absolutely disagree with if they were presented with a truthful representation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone is swayed by instructions to kill themselves, they are, be definition, consuming content they desire.

  That’s a bad argument. Marketing is one thing, manipulation is totally different.

  There’s nothing specifically wrong with marketing in general, but marketers with access to enormous amounts of private information blur the line between advertising and manipulation. Using people’s private information to each individual exactly what they want to hear about a candidate without regard to the truth is absolutely something that we should be concerned about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Tribute to Bram Moolenaar, The Maestro Behind Vim Code Editor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Some cases? hjkl is such a euphoric way to move around that all my keyboards have the arrow keys mapped to those letters under a layer. Truly a game changer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome tips, I’ll give those a try, thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I don’t think businesses doing SEO is really the issue here.

  It’s the millions of low-quality, garbage blogspam websites that have SEOd their way into filling the first 10 pages of every single search.

  What’s a good canister vacuum? What I can I do for fun in Sparks, Nevada? Why is my cat throwing up? It doesn’t matter what you search for, you’re going to get articles filled with 6000 words of barely-passable English that you have to scroll through, with an add between every paragraph, until you finally get to the part where they “answer” the question with the most common-sense, useless, vague pile of word vomit that proves the author doesn’t know any more about the topic than you do.

  But it’s no accident that that’s what Google has tuned their algorithm to prioritize. They’ve got as much of an interest in making you look at those ads as the website, because the ads come from Google and that’s their entire business model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The state of Playstore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have personally never had something I’ve searched for not show up, I’ve never had the App Store crash a single time (I don’t think I’ve ever had any first-party app crash on iOS actually), and it’s always loaded for me as fast as my network will allow.

  Just another anecdotal point of view, maybe the situation is different if you’re using an older iPhone?