Onion Reality
I have this weird problem on YouTube. (Don’t we all, I hear you ask.)
For whatever reason, the Almighty Algorithm decided to pop up some videos from The Onion (which I thought didn’t do anything these days). I watched a couple, because I find them funny, so now I see more of them, including the old stuff from a decade ago when they used to have a budget.
My problem now is that I have to double check every ‘news’ video that comes up in case they’re fake ones created by the Onion ten years ago. It’s really hard to tell the difference between stuff they did as parody/satire back then and what’s really happening in the real news today!
We live in Onion Reality. I don’t believe in God, but… God help us.
(This has been your random dose of boredom-induced weird thoughts. And now, back to the editing.)
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Wouldn't it show a site's true care and interest in a user's concerns to create a way that they could opt-out of an algorithm's direction? In a clear way (not like FB's lame "do you want to see more like this?" Under a book ad. Dudes! More like what: any book, a Sci-Fi title, a Sci-Fi title w/romance? >sigh< Lazyness! >.<
Probably, but they won't do that. Huh, Google say they take preferences into account when recommending adverts. They don't. Not even a little.
