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   John Skiles Skinner (skiles@carhenge.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 11:22:33 JST John Skiles Skinner

   in reply to

   • Cory Doctorow
   • Cogito ergo mecagoendios

   @elrohir
   Yup! @pluralistic has written a lot about how a big platform like youtube "can't resist the temptation to show you the things it wants you to see, rather than what you want to see."

   https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/

   Once they have saturated their market, they can't grow anymore by honest means. So the only way they can expand is by squeezing more money out of the existing market. Which means they become worse at software.

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     Cogito ergo mecagoendios (elrohir@mastodon.gal)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 11:22:34 JST Cogito ergo mecagoendios

     I just saw a toot explaining a useful "youtube fixer" firefox add on that removes "for you..." and "people also search..." from search results.

     This made me realize how far we have come the wrong way: we are now in THE AGE OF ADVERSARIAL FEATURE DESIGN. Product creators introduce anti-features to attempt to divert user attention AWAY from what they want. Users are captive to the ecosystem because the software USED TO BE useful, and they actively have to block against new features to keep it so.

     Tim Chambers repeated this.