Searching for stuff
Jul 30, 2018 9:36:43 GMT -5
Post by 40oz on Jul 30, 2018 9:36:43 GMT -5
Youtube, Amazon, and Netflix has this terrific ability to feed you a bunch of related stuff by your search history. So if you watch a horror movie on netflix one day, you might find that the next time you open up netflix, the first thing you'll see is "Since you liked this movie, you'll also like all of these similar horror movies" which is awesome if all you fucking do all day is watch horror movies and have zero interest in anything else. Sometimes when using netflix or amazon, and especially youtube, if I feel like searching for a type of thing, I gotta go into incognito mode because I don't want amazon or netflix or youtube to pollute everything I might be interested in with all this garbage that I only wanted to look at once.
I was searching for a particular youtube video of some sort of live debate but I couldn't remember the title or how to describe what they were talking about, so I searched 5 or 6 different things and watched a few videos for a few seconds hoping to find the exact one before I started to get concerned. I never did bother to watch more videos hoping to find exactly what I was looking before because I knew that by the end of my quest, my entire youtube home page is going to get loaded with all of these stupid debate videos I don't care about. It shows up in related videos, it prioritizes stuff from the same youtube channels in otherwise completely unrelated searches. Even when you sign out of youtube, it still uses your cookies to tell you what you would probably watch.
It's cool that youtube wants to help me find more stuff similar to what I've watched but it's becomes a lot of work to tell youtube, netflix and amazon to stop sending me similar stuff to what I've searched. I keep steering deep into some things and it makes my internet experience feel so washed out. Is there a real purpose to all of this other than some lazy-minded people like it that way? I can imagine the amount of garbage content there is on the internet, that some people get trapped into these holes where they think that's all the internet has to give to them.
I was searching for a particular youtube video of some sort of live debate but I couldn't remember the title or how to describe what they were talking about, so I searched 5 or 6 different things and watched a few videos for a few seconds hoping to find the exact one before I started to get concerned. I never did bother to watch more videos hoping to find exactly what I was looking before because I knew that by the end of my quest, my entire youtube home page is going to get loaded with all of these stupid debate videos I don't care about. It shows up in related videos, it prioritizes stuff from the same youtube channels in otherwise completely unrelated searches. Even when you sign out of youtube, it still uses your cookies to tell you what you would probably watch.
It's cool that youtube wants to help me find more stuff similar to what I've watched but it's becomes a lot of work to tell youtube, netflix and amazon to stop sending me similar stuff to what I've searched. I keep steering deep into some things and it makes my internet experience feel so washed out. Is there a real purpose to all of this other than some lazy-minded people like it that way? I can imagine the amount of garbage content there is on the internet, that some people get trapped into these holes where they think that's all the internet has to give to them.
