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I’m confused, do you prefer chronological feeds from friends and family or not? GP is saying that feeds driven by friends and family would be an improvement to

I’m confused, do you prefer chronological feeds from friends and family or not? GP is saying that feeds driven by friends and family would be an improvement to their products, and new EU law will drive that behaviour by making it hard for companies like Facebook to indiscriminately force black box recommendation algorithms on people. Isn’t that exactly what you say you want? And thus you agree with this statement > Interesting how this is forcing these companies to objectively improve their products

chongli 3y ago
I’m confused, do you prefer chronological feeds from friends and family or not? Yeah I don’t get it either. I’ve unfollowed most of my family and friends. I’m not interested in their re-shared political pieces. My Facebook feed has morphed into a stream of stuff from my hobbies. It’s basically replaced Reddit for me.
- legitster 3y ago
  > My Facebook feed has morphed into a stream of stuff from my hobbies. It’s basically replaced Reddit for me. Is there some sort of setting somewhere I am missing? FB has ignored my follows and stated preferences and just feeds me random trash.
legitster 3y ago
> I’m confused, do you prefer chronological feeds from friends and family or not? Yes. I would prefer this. FB no longer gives me a customized feed. I get a generic feed tailored to my demographics - brain achingly dumb posts about Disney and Marvel and memes I don't care for. And I am unable to unsubscribe from any of them because none of them are based on my preferences. This has been FB's response to the EU sanctions (as well as dropping user engagement) and is the "Non-Personalized feed" that the article is describing.
- Moldoteck 3y ago
  it was just a way to increase profit, because, you know, growth growth growth...
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- youngtaff 3y ago
  Yeh but that’s a fault of FB not the EU law
- LordShredda 3y ago
  This is where a EU based competitor could step in and give a decent product, while still complying and benefiting the local economy
  - btbuildem 3y ago
    It doesn't even have to be EU based -- just create a decent product voluntarily.
- Symbiote 3y ago
  I went through the earlier process of objecting to personal data processing. Since then, my feed has been 25% videos of trains and model railways, 50% vaguely sexist or sexual jokes (blondes, 'little Johnny' etc) or cartoons, 25% posts from random Anglophone police forces showing them catching speeding cars, or advising to use seatbelts. As a whole I think it's good evidence that they no longer use anything they know about me to show the adverts.

chongli 3y ago

I’m confused, do you prefer chronological feeds from friends and family or not? Yeah I don’t get it either. I’ve unfollowed most of my family and friends. I’m not interested in their re-shared political pieces. My Facebook feed has morphed into a stream of stuff from my hobbies. It’s basically replaced Reddit for me.

legitster 3y ago
> My Facebook feed has morphed into a stream of stuff from my hobbies. It’s basically replaced Reddit for me. Is there some sort of setting somewhere I am missing? FB has ignored my follows and stated preferences and just feeds me random trash.

legitster 3y ago

> I’m confused, do you prefer chronological feeds from friends and family or not? Yes. I would prefer this. FB no longer gives me a customized feed. I get a generic feed tailored to my demographics - brain achingly dumb posts about Disney and Marvel and memes I don't care for. And I am unable to unsubscribe from any of them because none of them are based on my preferences. This has been FB's response to the EU sanctions (as well as dropping user engagement) and is the "Non-Personalized feed" that the article is describing.

Moldoteck 3y ago
it was just a way to increase profit, because, you know, growth growth growth...
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youngtaff 3y ago
Yeh but that’s a fault of FB not the EU law
LordShredda 3y ago
This is where a EU based competitor could step in and give a decent product, while still complying and benefiting the local economy
- btbuildem 3y ago
  It doesn't even have to be EU based -- just create a decent product voluntarily.
Symbiote 3y ago
I went through the earlier process of objecting to personal data processing. Since then, my feed has been 25% videos of trains and model railways, 50% vaguely sexist or sexual jokes (blondes, 'little Johnny' etc) or cartoons, 25% posts from random Anglophone police forces showing them catching speeding cars, or advising to use seatbelts. As a whole I think it's good evidence that they no longer use anything they know about me to show the adverts.