I don't want YouTube to reccomend anything for me. I don't want Facebook to show me the news stories they think I should see. I don't want Google to show me the ads they think are more relevant to me. None of this improves my life in any way whatsoever, and in fact is leading to the dumbing down of society. We have completely handed over individual taste, interest, and curiosity to algorithms that do nothing but optimize for engagement. I'm done. I want the old internet back. A place where you were presented with a variety of information, indexed by it's content, from which I am able to pick and choose, and then discuss with other human beings.
The users of YouTube, Facebook, and Google generally like a feed of things recommended to them. I feel like if this were an article about too many people pissing in a pool, your comment is saying no one should want to swim. That's one way to not get urine on you, but plenty of people clearly want to swim and it doesn't help much to blame them.
