The algorithm seems to weigh heavily on a user's history, what they have watched and what they have searched for in addition to what they also want you to see
They like to mix it in there so it's less sus
As soon as I turned off all personalized ads, wiped and paused history as well as search history, the gloves came off
I immediately started getting spammed with Turning Point USA and PragerU ads without ever searching for anything like it
I haven't seen any ads that are center or left of center and beyond since doing so
I have even tried searching for left leaning content directly in Google search while signed in with the same account
The search delivers the results of the search but nothing is carried over by the algorithm in YouTube like it had previously
Just more extreme right content.
Google has essentially become anothrr Sinclair Media Group, a conduit for right wing propaganda
Same, I've always been android and windows and heavily anti-apple
It's like people have completely forgotten what Apple was like before the iPhone
I don't know if I've ever really been pro-Microsoft, they had just been what gave me the freedom to get the job done. I even had a Windows CE phone back in the day, because it worked.
When Microsoft started monetizing every little thing and became outright hostile with its users is when I made the switch to Linux, the learning curve was steep but it didn't take very long to get a handle on it
Early on I think I made the mistake of trying to hurry to get a windows experience out of Linux when I should have started where I started with Microsoft, at the command prompt
I used DOS for a long time before Windows 3.1 was even on the scene. Thinking back, even when I was using Windows at first, I was always finding myself bringing up a command prompt to do things.
Linux brings back some of that nostalgia, but it is so incredibly more capable and customizable than windows
I don't have Gemini loaded to my phone and I have Google assistant voice command disabled
But a few days ago I was having a conversation with my son next to me on the couch with my phone sitting on the arm of the couch.
When I asked him a question, gemini answered with a prompt on the screen I have never seen before and haven't since.
It still creeps me out
I looked up what the prompt for gemini is supposed to lol like and this looked nothing like that. It looked more like a popup dialogue box from a browser but the only browser I use is opera and it is set as default
The Iranian counterattack following the recent nuclear site strike was on par with their counterattack following Trump killing the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in January of 2020.
Limited response from Iran because of the limited damage done to Iran
False
All 4 seasons are the worst season