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| magic:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 01, 2022, 08:16:29 am ---They didn't think it through, they were pressured to do it by the the corporate media and other big accounts, and the whitehouse who were getting ratioed to hell. --- End quote --- They said they hid dislike conuters to discourage downvote brigading of videos. SJWs have always been the main victims of downvote brigading. Google is full of SJWs. Connect the dots, Dave. Google cares about it more (or at least as much as) the media and surely more than the White House. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: madires on May 01, 2022, 12:16:11 pm ---The Day After The Google Video: --- End quote --- Saw that. Fran raises very valid points, but this is nothing new really. This has been a problem ever since 'search engines' have existed. When the Internet started becoming popular, web sites collecting personal information started to appear - that was even before Google did it. Those web sites were dedicated to providing information on as many people as possible, without their consent, of course. Those were meant to become giant directories. This has just gotten worse, but the idea has been around for a long time now. Causes major privacy issues. One additional point Fran makes is the fact that Google helps sustaining some "questions" about people or facts by providing "frequenly asked questions" about the name or topic you're searching. It's one of the most idiotic (well, not for Google, of course) feature one could think of. It's about as bad as constantly pushing results of surveys about what people would vote right before an election. Is there a way of changing that? I'm unfortunately not sure, as there are way too many interests at stake here. |
| NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: cdev on May 01, 2022, 01:52:13 pm ---Although its not the main function of YouTube, there is absolutely no reason that you cant set up your own YouTube vote counter, except their trademarked name. If you call it something else. You should try doing that. Offer a means for people to vote on web content, and get people to use it. Slice and dice and sort in different ways. --- End quote --- Already done for dislikes, it would just be a small tweak to track likes as well. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/return-youtube-dislikes/ |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: magic on May 01, 2022, 05:40:58 pm --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on May 01, 2022, 08:16:29 am ---They didn't think it through, they were pressured to do it by the the corporate media and other big accounts, and the whitehouse who were getting ratioed to hell. --- End quote --- They said they hid dislike conuters to discourage downvote brigading of videos. SJWs have always been the main victims of downvote brigading. Google is full of SJWs. Connect the dots, Dave. Google cares about it more (or at least as much as) the media and surely more than the White House. --- End quote --- That's the public excuse, and you believed it, :-DD But yes, a few SJW's were also some of the complainers, which is why it was made the focus of the public excuse. |
| magic:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on May 01, 2022, 06:06:44 pm ---Google helps sustaining some "questions" about people or facts by providing "frequenly asked questions" about the name or topic you're searching. It's one of the most idiotic (well, not for Google, of course) feature one could think of. It's about as bad as constantly pushing results of surveys about what people would vote right before an election. --- End quote --- 99% of Google traffic is people searching for information rather than political opinion and the suggestions are fairly useful. If anything, I'm bothered by the screen estate they take when they are not :P When I type "bipolar transistor", the suggestions are "how BJT works" or "what are BJT applications". When I type the name of a local shopping mall, the suggestions are "what brands have their stores there" or "what are the opening hours". For the remaining 1%, Google is very well aware of their influence and of course always working to "improve". Hence the removal of "Clinton email scandal" and similar problematic queries. I'm sure that "is public personality X a woman" fits this category, as long as the public personality is big enough for anyone to care, because lack of serious customer support and emergency-driven moderation is another hallmark of Google. The idea that they don't care about their influence is asinine, they are highly obsessed with using it to further their private interests, not only in politics but even more so in technology. It's just that they are cheap bastards too so there is only so much they can do with the drones they are willing to hire and the task is immense. --- Quote from: EEVblog on May 02, 2022, 01:42:27 am ---That's the public excuse, and you believed it, :-DD But yes, a few SJW's were also some of the complainers, which is why it was made the focus of the public excuse. --- End quote --- So who were the main complainers and why would they give rat's ass in the first place? Reminder that the votes still exist, they just aren't shown to the proles. Reminder that the algorithms are already "improved" to ignore "wrong" votes and guide the proles to "authoritative" sources. Also, reminder that Google CFO admitted to having cried after Clinton's wife's election loss :-DD |
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