The worst for me is Google's (and other tech giants) targeting and recommendation engine algorithms; and the very worst for me is YouTube's targeting and recommendations.
For example, if you have a YouTube account you are constantly targeted. Look at one cat video and you will see cat videos in your recommendations forever. The only way to stop the constant barrage of 'cat videos' is to then go into each video and click "Not Interested", then click on "Tell Us Why" and you must click on a reason. Watch one video on "boxing" and you will be bombarded with boxing videos constantly and the ONLY WAY to stop this is to constantly do the terrible time-wasting YouTube three click dance:
- NOT INTERESTED => TELL US WHY => NOT INTERESTED IN "WHATEVER" VIDEOS
- NOT INTERESTED => TELL US WHY => NOT INTERESTED IN "WHATEVER" VIDEOS
- NOT INTERESTED => TELL US WHY => NOT INTERESTED IN "WHATEVER" VIDEOS
- NOT INTERESTED => TELL USE WHY => NOT INTERESTED IN "WHATEVER" VIDEOS
- NOT INTERESTED => TELL US WHY => NOT INTERESTED IN "WHATEVER" VIDEOS
It's totally disgusting. Google's YouTube engineers should be fired and they should hire people who actual care about others and care about the world we live in.
Also, just as bad or even worse is when you look at some political video on CNN or your favorite legitimate news channel. YouTube will then constantly bombard you with copyright violations who screen capture CNN's (all legitimate news channels) programming and write fake headlines over the videos. It's horrible. YouTube and Google actively push copyright violations and fake news headlines / bylines out to me every day. This, I really HATE. Google (YouTube) forces us to do this horrible three click dance constantly because of the illegal and offensive content they push out to us:
- NOT INTERESTED => TELL US WHY => NOT INTERESTED IN "THIS COPYRIGHT VIOLATORS" CHANNEL
- NOT INTERESTED => TELL US WHY => NOT INTERESTED IN "ANOTHER COPYRIGHT VIOLATORS" CHANNEL
- NOT INTERESTED => TELL US WHY => NOT INTERESTED IN "THIS FAKE NEWS COPYRIGHT VIOLATORS" CHANNEL
- NOT INTERESTED => TELL US WHY => NOT INTERESTED IN "THIS FAKE NEWS, OFFENSIVE, COPYRIGHT VIOLATORS" CHANNEL
This is never ending! Really, Google's engineers should be fired and replaced with people who understand how to insure that fake news, copyright violations and the constant stream of offensive, fake, stolen video content is not forced upon us. Google's is supposed to have all this great "AI" technology and they cannot even stop basic copyright theft and fake news on YouTube. In fact, Google / YouTube promotes this criminal activity and forces this offensive material into my YouTube "recommedations" channel.
How in the hell does Google and YouTube get away with permitting people to steal other's content, write fake / offensive headlines and bylines over the videos, and push this garbage out to us constantly!!!
This should be illegal and probably is, but Google / YouTube does is a matter of standard business practice.
This is my rant!
Agaaaahhhhhhh!!