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It doesn’t matter how much I label myself. If I’m a demisexual goblincore Gen Z Swiftie, I guarantee there are still others like me. With enough ad and cookie
by Animats 8mo ago
It doesn’t matter how much I label myself. If I’m a demisexual goblincore Gen Z Swiftie, I guarantee there are still others like me.
With enough ad and cookie blocking, it gets weird. Youtube Shorts decided for a while that I really want to watch videos of semi-automatic pipe welding tools being used by Asian women. At least twenty of those. Now that's niche.
Before that, there was a batch of rock crusher videos from India.
This week, the welding tools and rock crushers are gone,
but there are many ads for cruise lines. Also, ads for cat food. I don't have a cat.
With tracking blocked, but an IP address that changes infrequently, that's apparently what the ad system does - tries batches of some random subject and see if there's any response. It can't lock onto anything effective.
- x0x0 8mo agoI also got the attractive asian women definitely not wearing construction clothing demonstrating automated pipe welding machines. The worst is when you accidentally click one of the manosphere/incel videos, then get a stream of them afterwards.
- Animats 8mo agoNow I'm getting Asian archery videos, which are really ads for elaborate compound bows with pulleys. I've been trying to tell whether they're really hitting the target or just faking it.
- llbbdd 8mo agoFor a while YouTube was trying to get me to watch shorts of factories in Pakistan making different color sheets of industrial foam. Every day a new color of foam. I still don't know what the foam is for, or if the color indicates the intended use.
- lostmsu 8mo agoWait, people don't just block Shorts from UI using uBlock, and never see them again ever?