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   aka ginger (gingerrroot@kitty.town)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 05:05:23 JST aka ginger

   every single streaming or storing device where you can purchase or browse things should have a “dont ever show me this again” button

   i dont want certain artists, movies, shows, games to ever be recommended to me by your bad algorithm and there should always be an option for it

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     :blobcathug: (jain@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 05:05:18 JST :blobcathug:

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     • Kevin Karhan :verified:
     • Gabriela Queiroz ?️‍⚧️ ??
     @gabri @kkarhan @gingerrroot nah thats a bad idea... basically there exists 2 situations:
     - the server sends the recommendations, then the server needs to know the full block list anyway
     - the client gets the recommendations, in this case just use the local storage for the block list...
     using cookies for storing a anti recommendation list just adds useless overhead and cookies are way more complex and designed to do other things than keeping userdata
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     Gabriela Queiroz ?️‍⚧️ ?? (gabri@tech.lgbt)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 05:05:19 JST Gabriela Queiroz ?️‍⚧️ ??

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     • Kevin Karhan :verified:

     @kkarhan
     @gingerrroot

     Cookies are limited to 4 KiB of information so I guess the best we can do is let users have a cookie that points to a list of public URLs with the things they don't want to see. (kind alike linking to a paste bin)

     Now that I'm thinking about it, this feature sounds so useful it might be a good idea to standardise it somehow. Perhaps even with an IETF RFC.

     As for the file format itself, I think that some simple JSON thing is enough. (let me continue in another toot)

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     Kevin Karhan :verified: (kkarhan@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 05:05:20 JST Kevin Karhan :verified:

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     @gingerrroot AND this should not require any login at all, but at most a perpetual "dislike cookie" for said site.

     And yes I can totally understand why, because I've been there...

     Today was a record: I wished for that 6 times out 8 just on #YouTube's main website alone!
     https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110649459333905684

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     :blobcathug: (jain@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 05:07:28 JST :blobcathug:

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     • Kevin Karhan :verified:
     • Gabriela Queiroz ?️‍⚧️ ??
     @gabri @gingerrroot @kkarhan also pointing to a arbitary url is also a very bad idea from a security perspective