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Lots of personalization bubbles are fantastically useful. I prefer local news from my neighborhood over news from a neighborhood in another city in another sta
by adbachman 9y ago
Lots of personalization bubbles are fantastically useful.
I prefer local news from my neighborhood over news from a neighborhood in another city in another state. I prefer technically detailed articles about software development over technically detailed articles about dog grooming. I choose feeds and sources that filter in my favor.
Your dad always had the option of subscribing to the Wall Street Journal or People if their local paper didn’t cover business or celebrity gossip extensively enough.
Maybe not bubbles all the way down, but it’s close.
- bo1024 9y agoGood point. Maybe the issue is user-controlled, opt-in style personalization versus opaque, algorithmic, A-B-tested-on-other-people personalization. I'm definitely in favor of personally choosing what to subscribe to, but algorithms are very far from where I would trust them to make those choices for me.