Save Me From Women....

[pastoralguy]

I have the same experience with facebook, where I frequently get 'suggested for you' or 'sponsored' things appear on my feed, oftentimes pictures of scantily clad women, including pictures of the same woman under different names and pages etc.

Not that I wish to be 'saved' from this as such. But yeah, mild irritation. It's not as bad as some of the other things that have appeared on my feed, like far-right memes.

I can always remember that when I took much needed early retirement from the NHS I received an email from Facebook ‘ ‘recommending’ that I follow a colleague who had barely spoken a civil word to me in the fifteen years I worked with her. Obviously, this person wanted to see what I was getting up to following my retirement. I took great delight in blocking her!

[Serial_Apologist]

I can always remember that when I took much needed early retirement from the NHS I received an email from Facebook ‘ ‘recommending’ that I follow a colleague who had barely spoken a civil word to me in the fifteen years I worked with her. Obviously, this person wanted to see what I was getting up to following my retirement. I took great delight in blocking her!

I have recently been getting requests on Facebook to "friend" various heavily made-up young women located in the States. All very odd, given that they would seem not to have anything in common with me!

[eighthobstruction]

I have recently been getting requests on Facebook to "friend" various heavily made-up young women located in the States. All very odd, given that they would seem not to have anything in common with me!

....these are scams....crude scams but scams none the less that often allow the caller to clone or mimic your Fb pages....basically don't click onto anything you are unsure of the provenance....

[Old Grumpy]

The above posts just reinforce my choice not to participate in anything run by Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk!

[richardfinegold]

Of course all the big tech companies share data on your clicks. So if you perused, say a pornography site on a different platform than YT, that information gets fed into YT and will influence future algorithms. Just sayin

[kernelbogey]

The above posts just reinforce my choice not to participate in anything run by Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk!

Totally agree. FoR3 is the only social medium (sic) in which I participate. I had/have a Twitter/X account but haven't used it in years.

[eighthobstruction]

Of course all the big tech companies share data on your clicks. So if you perused, say a pornography site on a different platform than YT, that information gets fed into YT and will influence future algorithms. Just sayin

....I say ol'chap cough cough pwaa ahem ....I wondered why Professor Jim Al-Khalili kept turning up in my feed....

....here's one from this afternoon.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKO6...ist=WL&index=1

[Serial_Apologist]

....these are scams....crude scams but scams none the less that often allow the caller to clone or mimic your Fb pages....basically don't click onto anything you are unsure of the provenance....

Too late for me then, since I clicked them all away.

[Retune]

The algorithm pushing these videos has become something of a meme - see all the 'men of culture' comments when one of these pops up!

There are ways around the adblock blocker, at least for the moment. You can use uBlock Origin, but you have to keep updating the filters:

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_29_2023_mega/

https://ublockorigin.com/

Or you can use an alternative YT frontend like Invidious:

https://invidious.io/

Mobile apps like NewPipe do the same sort of thing.

[eighthobstruction]

....OOOOoooooooooo that's 3 worlds i will never enter - too Matrix for me....and Keano Reeves makes me feel inadequate....

[smittims]

For the sake of us oldies who still use the original Oxford English Dictionary, could we have some definitions please?

feed

frontend (or front-end)

to begin with, anyway.

[Old Grumpy]

For the sake of us oldies who still use the original Oxford English Dictionary, could we have some definitions please?

feed

frontend (or front-end)

to begin with, anyway.

Funny - you'd expect someone with a name like Retune to be changing channnels on their wireless by turning a knob with a piece of string round it

[Maclintick]

The above posts just reinforce my choice not to participate in anything run by Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk!

To coin a phrase - Me Too ! Not on FB or X & find that DuckDuckGO Privacy Essentials blocks all ads on my Youtube channel. I still get the accusatory pop-up "Your Watch History is Off " when I launch YT, followed by their invitation to "Learn More" which of course I'm disinclined to do since I've deliberately disabled this feature. So it goes...

[smittims]

I wanted to read one article on The Spectator web site. I could do this if I 'registered', which, of course , involved giving them my e-mail address. They now send me an e-mail at least twice a day, but if I want to read any of the articles they refer to I have to agree to a 'free' trial period. No thanks...

[JasonPalmer]

I once had a spectator subscription but found it too much, when i do buy a copy i read it cover to cover so having a new one each week was overwhelming. They have increased their circulation by using online as a way to grow subscriptions.