2012-02-08

Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" - YouTube


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  • @WilliamABoi The speaker didn't accuse FB of having political motives nor of censoring people from others of opposing views. He actually doesn't imply those. He's merely pointing out the bad aspects of FB and others tailoring what they think interests you based on your tastes. You understand the mechanism, but are wrongly accusing the speaker of accusing FB of censorship. He's pointing out a failure of the system, not implying censorship.

  • @jufraza Did you listen to him at all? It tailors the results to that, and to your location, your type of computer, EVERYTHING about you, personally. Even if "clear history" worked (it doesn't) you will get dramatically different results.

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  • @MLStrand56 "DuckDuckGo (dot-com)"

  • OH! I forgot.

    You already live in a filter bubble in real life :) especially in America..

  • This is why everyone should Youtube free-fall for at least 2 hours a week.

    Youtube free-falling is clicking on suggestions and just keep clicking on suggestions after the vid is done and you end up at the most awesome/weird shit you can think of after a while.

  • Is the search engine: GoDuckGo OR DuckDuckGo? I've seen both listed here.

    MLStrand56

  • @NOVAtheRetard

    Firefox has plugins to deal with all of these issues, LSO's are one of the big problems, as they collect a boatload of info - so use the 'betterprivacy' plugin

    'NoScript' will allow to block many things such as 'google-analytics', or entire websites like msn.com / facebook, etc or just parts of them. (ie: you have total granular control!)

    'trueblock' blocks all adverts.

    ixquick is an anon search engine that can use google, but won't track you.

  • i have stopped using FB ... and google search ... now i use duck duck go search

  • @stevegoff420 Do you really think that sites like Google and FB intentionally attempt to keep consumers of media "in the dark" to keep us ignorant? They wrote that code for convenience to the consumer, for us! People like to read what they find pleasurable, even if sometimes it's not healthy for them, and sites like Google just try to be good distributors and listen to the customer. It's a temporary lapse of journalistic responsibility at the worst.

  • How Facebook and Google and others are screwing you online. Keeping info from you.

    Facebook IPO relevant >>> Vote Ron Paul 2012

    They are treating you like mushrooms....keeping you in the dark and feeding you shit!

  • @ugetsy No, those are kinda scrapped. ACTA is way worse.

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