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baatliwala@lemmy.world 5 days agoProbably controversial but Youtube is my least favourite search because it doesn’t tie in to your Google search at all. Like you search something on Google but YT doesn’t know that so the results are completely different. I WANT it to be fed my normal search history for context, what even is the point of having an interconnected ecosystem? Otherwise I’d just stick to DDG
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 5 days ago
Every example of human interest profile targeting functionality that humanity has ever invented, even if it begins as a way of legitimately improving the user’s experience, eventually is gutted and retooled to cyberstalk and pimp them out to voyeuristic clients.
The clients? Mostly rich pay-per-view incel corporations that could never hope to reach their desired audience organically, much less hold their interest, so they are absolutely willing to pay for non-consentual attention control.
Once we reach this phase, your pimp has less and less interest in delivering on promises they made to you a long time ago about relevant content. They know you’ll keep giving them juicy data to help pair you with clients that they can prove have the best chance at manipulating you and getting what they want from you.
So yes, you’ll probably find that the convenience you could once purchase by giving them more of your data will slow. Ultimately, all it will purchase is more intrusive advertisers stalking you everywhere you go.
Your idea of sticking to DDG sounds like a better option