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Apple News actually follows the model that you describe as the ethical way to do this. In my experience, it produces better and more pleasing recommended conte
by happybuy 9y ago
Apple News actually follows the model that you describe as the ethical way to do this.
In my experience, it produces better and more pleasing recommended content in it's feed due to this control.
Inference models such as YouTubes always feels like you are being pushed into certain content and actually makes me personally hesitate from sampling / clicking on certain videos.
In the YouTube model, simply sampling a single video starts up the recommendation engine to keep pushing similar videos and as a user you feel railroaded into being profiled.
- quadrangle 9y agoEXACTLY! And thanks for the note about Apple News. I must admit that having left Apple over their walled-garden iOS direction (turning to embrace of GNU etc.), they have stuck to a higher-road in a lot of regards compared to the other big companies. They're still nowhere near as awful as Google, Facebook, Microsoft… if only Apple weren't sabotaging copyleft and hadn't pioneered the in-app advertising, sales, and tracking that are actually so much of what's wrong…