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“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial (arstechnica.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Algorithms 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    You used to be able to see what Google thought about you.

    https://myadcenter.google.com/controls

    Can't check myself if they still do but on the advertiser end they definitely let you target demographics.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months 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.

    Edit:

    I misunderstood what you said. I use ad blocker so I don't see ads. Sometimes they get through and it's always Wix. That is kind of a mystery to me.

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