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It sounds like their location based targeting sucks. Spotify has the same problem for me - it spams my playlists & recommendations with songs that I have never,
by zaptheimpaler 5y ago
It sounds like their location based targeting sucks. Spotify has the same problem for me - it spams my playlists & recommendations with songs that I have never, ever shown the slightest interest in purely based on location.
This seems to be a common theme in the industry. Recommenders heavily overweight location - an incredibly general factor, even in the presence of troves of specific, individual level data. Goes to show how little basic reasoning really goes into how these systems work.
- bsmith 5y agoHow about spamming me with artists I have taken the time to mark as 'Do not play'? The FIRST recommended album in Album Picks is such an artist. Good reminder that I should get rid of my premium subscription, thanks!
- bombcar 5y agoAll online tools should have a “pretend I’m in Silicon Valley” toggle so you can get the same results the engineers get. Localized search is useful at times (restaurants for example, I like getting the local McDonald’s or China Wok rather than the biggest one in New York) but it’s completely useless for many terms. But maybe not the ones Google makes the most money on.