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Report as spam and unsubscribe. If they send you more emails they are in violation of the law for the canned spam act.

Probably not because the home feed has existed without issue for years with my history turned off. This change only exists to convince people to turn their history on. I don't know why they even need our permission rather than just removing it as an option to have it off, but I'm glad I can.

I just noticed it on the web browser. Great stuff. The home feed is just gone now.

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I don't think it is intentional. I think it is more like a phenomenon. I think entire companies can potentially be bullshit. It's not like the people working there aren't making the company money so nobody is deciding to hire people for no reason. It's just that these people and businesses are mostly working bullshit jobs. So much of the economy is based on doing nearly pointless work so it enables further pointless work.

Really it depends on your exact definition of pointless. If our only goal is to survive then we can probably succeed at that with 5-10% of the work that is being done now. Everyone else isn't doing something that is directly contributing to humanities survival. That seems a little extreme as I personally believe that things like entertainment, art and making life more comfortable are all meaningful to society. There could be some definition of pointless that a majority agrees on that implies that 25-50% of jobs are not doing much of anything.

Anything older than Gen Z tends to be referred to as being a boomer. Including Gen Y. I think Gen Y has the most control over the internet so this group gets brought up frequently.

I'm curious to see when Gen Alpha will start showing up. Where are those little guys?

I think a lot of bullshit jobs exist because as a society we have decided that everyone absolutely has to work at a job in order to live. There isn't enough work to be done for every single person to contribute so we have to invent work so we can pay people so they can make money to live in society.

If some day we manage to implement a universal basic income then I think this will eliminate a lot of the problem.

Those two things are not at all similar. The idea of bullshit jobs is not a propaganda thing like unskilled labor. The guy that wrote this book Bullshit Jobs would probably find that what most people think of as unskilled labor are some of the most not bullshit and most important jobs there are.

Although the guy has a lot of debatable ideas that I don't fully agree with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

I still get recommendations on the Android Youtube App and my watch history is completely empty and turned off.

As a Gen Y human I feel Lemmy appeals to my traditional forum sensibilities while being slightly streamlined. People used to host forums because they wanted to and not as a means to generate revenue.

Yes it is inconceivable that we as a society have decided the ad industry is worth so much money rather than doing something productive.

Unhealthy, unhappy. 🫠

Look, I'm trying to be subtle, but like 95% of what they put on the internet is basically an ad. I get that the advertisement industry is huge, but I personally find this to not be a valuable contribution to the world and in general a net negative. Maybe back in the day they could have some benefit of the doubt that their opinions are their own, but because they get paid by sponsors they are just shills. As far as I'm concerned this company is worthless and should split up.

It seems inconceivable that they could grow to the point of having so many employees. They don't do anything that I would consider valuable. Clearly other people in the world disagree or else they wouldn't be making money.

Why is a youtube channel a big company? I don't get it. They don't even make anything. Just record some unboxings and go home.

I was thinking the same thing. I've never played a single one or even seen gameplay footage of them. Who is playing these games? I assumed they were just generic shooters.

I'd use dropbox again if they allowed public linking to said files. I have no use for online storage otherwise.

I watched some of their videos maybe 10+ years ago. I don't know how they managed to get so big, but I think they should probably get small again.

'test' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

So many movies and shows have phones being transparent rectangles that look like a piece of glass. It's impractical for so many reasons from privacy to even being able to hold the thing.

Honestly I don't think cellphones will change that much going forward. They will get more powerful. Maybe they will continue to replace other computing devices for people such as laptops, desktops and gaming consoles, but the form factor is as practical as it gets.

Vehicular manmurder is more like it.