Anyone else ever noticed how there is no longer an option to permanently reject or completely disable an option anymore?
Every 3 weeks I get a popup in MS teams (yeah I know, but it’s for work, nothing I can do about it), that asks me if I want to pin the AI agent tab and the only option is yes please or remind me later. What the actual fuck is this shit?
Does Microsoft understand consent?
a) No b) Nope c) Fuck no lol
a) Yes.
b) Ask again in 15 days and 3 hours.
I knew you were going to use Microsoft as an example. They’re very rapey in behaviour.
Would you like to receive my penis?
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Yes.
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Ask me again in 2 hours.
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You don’t have to apologize for teams. Everyone knows nobody uses it for fun. Only work.
True, it was more of a parry for the inevitable dont-use-teams-comment
If a human being tried consent this way, they’d be a sex offender.
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Silicon Valley has always been run by rapists, so that checks out :)
YouTube is also guilty of this behavior. Every month it’s “got it, we’ll show you fewer shorts”. Zero. I want zero.
Youtube is worse. If you click “dont recommend this (far-right rage-baiting) channel” it says okay, and then leaves you alone for perhaps a week.
After, right back to square one as that channel is in your recommended feeds
Have tried to exterminate Jordan Peterson recommendations for years to no avail.
Really? I have managed to completely block a few channels from getting recommended, including one I didn’t want to block. Annoying thing is there’s no way to manage these blocks, only remove all of them at once.
Your clicks say no, but your algorithm is telling me yes. 😘
And is programmed by a far right tech bro programmer or apathetic yes-man who answers to one anyways yup.
Shit like this is why freetube exists. Subscribe to the channels you want to see, get only those channels!
I’ve never gotten any right wing recommendation. There’s something you’re watching that makes that recommendation happen.
victim blaming, love it
As someone who also doesn’t get recommended right or far right content, it’s not victim blaming to say that the algorithm thinks they want to watch those kinds of things.
The algorithm is shit. But there’s something about their activity, when filtered through the algorithm, results in those suggestions. This is just a statement of fact.
You gotta love how getting suggested content they don’t like from the recommendation engine means they’re a victim.
Right, and it has nothing to do with right-wing media groups paying Youtube to disproportionately promote their content, no matter what
This isn’t at all what I implied. I really don’t understand the hostility here.
It shouldn’t be controversial to say that Google is trying to suggest videos to you it thinks you’ll watch. Their whole goal is to keep you watching as long as possible.
My theory is that if YouTube profiles people as likely 18-45 yr old male, then they shove right wing propaganda down your throat even if you don’t align with it in any other way based on subscriptions/search history/etc.
I’m right in that age range and never see apt right stuff, but I have a lot of subscriptions and my account is over a decade old 🤷 I also watch a lot leftist media lol
I’m 48 and have never seen that right wing bullshit. Guess I just never tripped across whatever criteria is it beyond just age.
No, you’re just being an ignorant fuck, and yes, victim blaming.
All it takes is getting “news” as one of the terms feeding in to it, and you end up with those fucks getting recommended. It has absolutely nothing to do with questionable watch decisions unless you’re such a massive troglodyte that you’d blame someone for clicking on anything remotely correlated with current events.
You can remove them with custom uBlock rules:
www.youtube.com##:matches-path(/)a#thumbnail[href*="/shorts"]:upward(7) www.youtube.com##:matches-path(/)a#endpoint[title*="Shorts"]I wish I had the permissions to install ad blocks on my work laptop. On the plus side, the kids I work with are learning that ads are to be disliked. When an ad interrupts something we’re watching, I go “booo.” Now one of my students does it, too.
At least I can consider it a form of inoculation - gotta teach ‘em young to resist the ever-present
brainwashing attemptsadvertisements.I wish I had the permissions to install ad blocks on my work laptop.
Me too, what is up with not having an adblocker or bring able to install one? So many ads pose security issues and not being able to block them is just annoying and unsafe.
Modern internet is impossible to use without a copious amount of plugins. Every website has some fucking cancer that needs to be removed in order for a site to be even remotely useful.
I wonder if YouTube lets these plugins through because it doesn’t want to attract antitrust suits
I think they just didn’t allocate enough resources to combat it yet. They tried to stop it couple of times, unsuccessfully
They know it’s addictive, and they’ve designed it that way on purpose.
If a software monopoly that is too large and important to society to be dismantled or avoided, and it uses that power to abuse its users and defy regulation, shouldn’t that company be nationalized?
Could you imagine if YouTube was nationalized and then the govt shutdown and utube traffic controllers stopped coming to work because they weren’t getting paid
Youtube nationalized, gov shutdown, and everyone starts uploading porn and movies because all the moderators stopped coming to work.
Thats been a thing for many years.
I’ve been listening to way too many Behind the Bastards podcasts in a row this week, but, apparently, Peter Thiel’s pick for the antichrist is a nebulous finger point towards the anti-AI movement.
All of it, the data centers going up faster than a fireworks tent on fire combined with decreased regulation and the dismantling of democracy reads as pure Thiel.
In short, this AI crap isn’t going away anytime soon.
Can we all get together across the country and burn down as many data centers as humanly possible? Seriously, just a wave of wires across the country.
If local city council representation would simply vote with the wishes of their voters, then we would have no data centers.
These people are guilty of fraudulent representation and should be recalled.
The problem here is that some datacenters are useful, and most of the companies that are poising our minds, the internet, and the planet, are also doing some good thing that society kind of depends on.
Water useage by data centers in Georgia, cannot be revealed to the public because that information is under NDA.
Nothing is that useful.
This is textbook enshittification.
I heard the term waay before i understood the word came into being because someone wrote a book about the phenomenon that didn’t have a name yet. Somehow i assumed this was a phenomenon that existed forever, instead of a few decades.
At home I’m on Linux but yes I also have a work laptop and I hate windows more and more daily.
Same for me.
I’ve suddenly been getting regular Windows notifications from Adobe asking me to set them as the default PDF app.
Very annoying when I use Adobe reader once a month or so to sign documents.
It stopped popping up for me after a while.
This is news?
I’ve been on Linux for the past 30 years or so, so yes it’s kind of new to me.
