I am a proud bubble.

hmm..... not necessarily bad in the sense that yes I would like to know more about this kind of stuff, but changing preferences based on one video is stupid. I watched a number of film reviews from a KZfaqr but none of his videos were later suggested to me, had to revisit history to check up on her. But I once clicked on a very right-wing channel and I constantly got their videos popping up

It been 11 years for this man imagine where he at now 🤔

@@verticalvorce8938 dog that’s crazy asf to think about

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It was just as relevant back then.

It's become worse. However, I dispute "personalisation". They don't show me what I want, instead they are showing me what they want.

I fear this might be an important part to why there is so much polarization at this moment towards face masks and racism.

And 2020 even more so.

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Not Really Ahead Of The Game? The Game Never Changed

@@HunnitAcreWoods the game is subjective

@@AndyDandy1995 the game is mind control, doesn’t change

@@HunnitAcreWoods perhaps that’s YOUR GAME but it is not limited to only that. What exactly are you trying to prove?? Lol

@@AndyDandy1995 i see, so filter bubbles exist because mind control is “my game” Great take. Enjoy

So much this

Because google is selling a product. If people see stuff they like more (I.E reaffirm their opinions) they're more likely to use the service more often.

damn capitalism

This is it exactly...and not only is it creating factions, but convincing people they are 100% right by constant reinforcement and it’s also convincing people that the others are 100% stupid. Television media is also split, which boosts this mindset, creates divisions. I tell you the truth- whatever news broadcast you watched this past month would probably dictate to you whose side you’d be on in this recent Kavanaugh hearing. If you watched Fox, Ford had absolutely no case and her story was “full of holes”, but if you watched CNN, Ford came across as completely believable. You’ll be told a different story and it will dictate what you believe to be the truth. It’s all about what you hear...at least until you choose to do some major contemplating and thinking, investigating...then and only then might you start to see things differently, but people don’t typically make time for that. There’s also personal bias as well- we only know what we know and can fathom from there. And sometimes what we think we know, we actually don’t. Internet just serves as a reinforcement of ideas we search for. Unless we purposely look up the opposite, but who does that?

I think the Google algorithm was trying to make us happy by attempting to make the bubbles smaller to get back to tight nit communities like the early days and the informational isolation is just a side effect to this. Perhaps broadening the bubbles topics would work (ie. Right wing, Into, political) creating venn diagrams.

"Fact checkers" - just another name for official censors.

It's mainly algorithms, that learn from huge chunks of past data

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Or is it that people staying in their own bubble don’t believe they’re doing so because there becoming progressive within it? A false sense of progressiveness...or is it? Or is a more fine tuning of that bubble? More specialized? Exacting? Isolating, certainly.

By seeking to make a change as a progressive when said change becomes the norm & later tradition. To preserve it across generations would it just make the title progressive & conservative dependent on who's against you?

@@yato4302 yes that's actually exactly what the terms mean as far as I'm aware (pretty old comment but oh well)

John McCain and Joe Biden were from different parties, but they had one of the most enduring friendships in the Senate. You won't find AOC and Ted Cruz sitting together at lunch, that's for sure

@@PenaltyKillah Right NoName and Buyden have no problem selling out their country.

exacto, un genio, y aún seguimos dormidos en el mismo aspecto.

exactly hahaha we'll be there eventually

Just because I'm paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get me.

+Dennis Boyer Sometimes it's as simple as visiting your elected rep's Facebook page, posting this video, and asking how he or she could address it. (Just make sure that your rep is active on his page...IE, his posts or her posts are current, and that he or she responds to comments.) If you're really interested in this stuff... You could perhaps e-mail or message your family members who might have a good grasp of how social media and politics works....And ask them how this could be addressed.

+Y Nish I heard about it two days later from my friends; I didn't even know it happend until they told me. I wish there was an option to turn them off, other than using a private browsing feature.

Use vpn

Use browsers that don't store your personal information, such as DuckDuckGo or TOR.

First step: Use a browser which, unlike the toxic mainstream ones (e.g. google chrome, microsoft edge, internet explorer, firefox,) will not annihilate your privacy for the purpose of political, influential, and/or monetary gains. The commenter above mentioned one great example already, which is a browser called *TOR.* That's a very good one for privacy. *Vivaldi* is also a great, new browser still being developed but it is quite fantastic already. It's very similar in feel and appearance to google chrome and it's incredibly customizable. Another browser that lots of people like is called *Opera.* Second Step: *DITCH. GOOGLE.* Try to ditch every possible google service in every possible situation that you can manage. Google is becoming increasingly terrifying and sinister, and we, the consumers, are the *ONLY* ones left with the ability to take the power away from them. The *BEST alternative search engine ever* is called *DuckDuckGo.* They even have a blog about this very issue (www.spreadprivacy.com) which has tons of fantastic tips on how to take back your privacy from these scary corporate and government entities which seek to brainwash us all for their own gain. We need to get as many people as possible to switch to the duck side!! It's an infinitely better search engine for so many reasons, and in all seriousness, it's important for the good of humanity that we take away as much power from Google/Alphabet (its parent company) as possible.

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@@disloyal I know that this is 2 years old but I want to say that DuckDuckGo and Tor are both as infiltrated and as useless. We can't do anything I'm afraid. I use Qwant. But whatever.

+Jess Chappell Haha good one. Anything change?

So relatable

Start a sport maybe?

It's called "duck duck go" instead of Egolog.

But Google wants that advertsing money. Dont be evil only we get to do that Lol.

The ethics of Big Tech seem to be based on "society is using our services for free, so for payment we'll use society as our guinea pigs without candor"

Idk I guess so

"but ultimately we as internet users have to take responsibility for what we see." But exactly how are we going to change this? Since this is not our interests, but the internet's interest? We have no control over what Google or any other site shows us.

+Steve From Management because THAT would be dangerous. imagine a real free flow of information and no censorship and/or propaganda. this is one way to limit the damage while giving the illusion of freedom.

The rationale behind Google is simple and benign: this filtering helps YOU find what YOU'RE looking for _faster_. Every time what you're looking for is on the first page, that's Google's filtering at work. In theory, its a really great, helpful idea.

It is easy to come up with a benign reverse-justification for action that violates accepted principle. What's really going on here is that social media giants are crafting algorithms that decide _for the user_ what the user sees. The original operator-driven sorting that made search engines great is practically gone from the internet. A search engine isn't a 'search' the way you could search a news or library index in decades past. It has become digitally curated to show the user content that will insulate rather than stimulate them. There is another TED talk by Malcolm Gladwell on variability in personal taste. I think that Google and every other social media site and search engine trying to keep pace with Google, is applying these lessons in the wrong way. Most people aren't going to hate or stop using a particular search engine just because they saw something curious, provocative, or disturbing. What Eli is saying is the effect of these filtering algorithms ( which +cbn620 commented on above) is to take away the need to be mentally and emotionally robust while wading through a sea of data to find - whatever. Sometimes people don't run a search looking for something in particular; they run a search to see what comes up, and they interpret what comes up as *_the_*_ most relevant_ results. When different people get different results for an identical search on an identical engine at the same time - that is distorting people's view of a topic or event to diverge _based on their existing views and habits:_ Put another way: The affect of filter bubbles is to keep us where we're at -mentally, socially, emotionally - instead of being provoked and challenged to think, feel, contemplate, and grow.

"Don't ask for security - ask for adventure! Better to live thirty years full of adventure than a hundred years safe in a corner." -Jim Rohn

Absolutely.

Valerie Nicholson Was with ya until you blamed the young folks. You know it’s not just them, right?

no way...... THAT is creepy.