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I feel like every recommendation engine has tanked in 2022 along with a matching upswing in ads. Audible is aggressively recommending an audiobook I already bo
by Ensorceled 4y ago
I feel like every recommendation engine has tanked in 2022 along with a matching upswing in ads.
Audible is aggressively recommending an audiobook I already bought and listened to, it's even in their "your year so far" list because I listened to it in January. Their 2-for-1, annual, special offer emails are coming 2-3 a week now.
My Facebook timeline is full of crappy "Suggested for you" entries. I doom scrolled last night and counted; I was "suggested" the Dilbert group 10 times. And ads ... so many ads. Ads and suggestions take up 66% of my feed; I get an ad, a suggestion and something from friends or family in equal proportions.
I watched ONE reality TV show on Netflix, The Final Table, and now the Banner show is "Crazy Delicious" and the Top Picks list is entirely reality TV shows on baking, cooking, chocolate sculpting. Where did the sci-fi go? Oh right, my continue watching bar ...
Twitter was CONSTANTLY suggesting/promoting NFT/coin/web3 scams, I've blocked every single one of them. Luckily that dried up very recently ... for some reason. Now my feed is full of promoted ISP ads ... for some reason. As with Facebook, my feed is swamped with ads now.
- thinkindie 4y agoI purchased a hair trimmer on Amazon two weeks ago - Amazon is still sending me emails recommending me to buy a hair trimmer.
- Ensorceled 4y agoIt's like shitty feedback ... if I did my research each of those reminds me I made the right choice but if I made a mistake Amazon is rubbing salt in the wound for weeks.
- corobo 4y ago> if I made a mistake Amazon is rubbing salt in the wound for weeks I just realised this is probably the only decent explanation. If you find fault with the item then you probably are going to be in the market again very soon and Amazon wants to be ready and waiting for you. Even if it is daft to display for 99% of people they may save x% of returns by catching someone with a silly recommendation. They could probably tie that in to the returns system directly though I guess, but maybe people get the new order in before the return is processed?
- Damogran6 4y agoI moved from the Facebook app to the web interface, and when it gets really bad, I just close it and do something else, hoping it will teach it something. Don't give me a 'stop seeing this ad' button? Disengage. Show me the same damned solar ad for the second dozen times? Disengage. Keep showing me 'do you know this person' every third page? Disengage. Also, I've found I just don't contribute anymore. Reddit has become a Read Only site...because there are so many people contributing, there's no way what I'm going to contribute hasn't already been posted by 4 other people, higher up in the algorithm.
- im3w1l 4y agoHaving more and more ads sounds like an end of market cycle thing. Like when there are no more billions of untapped users, but you have to show revenue growth, so you crank up the ads to an unsustainable number and sneak towards the exit before it all comes tumbling down.
- Ensorceled 4y agoFacebook definitely has that feel to it. The engagement in our family Facebook groups are way down.
- Nextgrid 4y agoGrowth for the sake of growth has a well-known biological equivalent: cancer, and its end-game is monopolizing all resources and killing the host (and thus itself).
- im3w1l 4y agoAll life forms do growth for the sake of growth. It can end in many other ways. Like a steady state. Or even more interesting, in regular boom ands busts: https://biologydictionary.net/predator-prey-relationship/ https://biologydictionary.net/predator-prey-relationship/