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> navigating the web remembering to click “dislike” on every video I don’t want recommendations from is hard, so I’m using this post to beg for someone at Alpha
by iudqnolq 7y ago
> navigating the web remembering to click “dislike” on every video I don’t want recommendations from is hard, so I’m using this post to beg for someone at Alphabet/YouTube to give us viewers (prosumers?) a quick and easy way to undo what videos recommendations are base on, as shown in this little video I made:
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I think the word "prosumer" encapsulates why she's wrong. Wikipedia defines it as
> This increase in participation has flourished following the increasing popularity of Web 2.0 technologies, such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. This rise in user participation blurs the line between production and consumption activities, with the consumer becoming a prosumer.
This is wrong. Youtube is producing a product which she uses. The fact that she decides to give YouTube videos for internet points doesn't make her some special new category of economic actor that deserves special "pro" rights if she'll watch YouTube ads and give them videos irregardless.
- jsnell 7y agoSo, this is strange. I've thought for a decade that the "pro" in "prosumer" came from "professional". I.e. they're people who want to buy industrial grade equipment for hobby use. I've never before seen it be used in a context where the root is obviously "producer" instead. But the Wikipedia article doesn't seem to even acknowledge the first definition.
- iudqnolq 7y agoIt is weird. At first I thought she meant the same, and was going to say that calling yourself a pro consumer is silly if you aren't paying money. Dictionary built into Bing (accessed via Cortana) gave me the same definition you had. I'm not sure if the Wikipedia article is particularly good or up to date; it uses the term Web 2.0 seriously.