I don't think it makes you a bad person ;) ... but I don't agree with your point of view. Personalised results are obviously better for Google because they're

I don't think it makes you a bad person ;) ... but I don't agree with your point of view. Personalised results are obviously better for Google because they're an advertising company. But they're not necessarily better for users, particularly the HN crowd. Beyond a certain level of computer savvy, I suspect the user prefers to have control of the output via keywords and regex, rather than have an algorithm decide for them, no matter how smart that algorithm is.