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Oh most definitely, fuck all that black-box algorithm nonsense. "we know what you want, and you will like it!"
It always seemed very self-reinforcing and circular to me, like "we showed you a dog and a cat, you clicked on a dog, so now we show you 8 dogs and 2 cats, and you mainly click on dogs! All dogs from here!"
It's straight up dangerous. It leads people into echo chambers and they feel like they found that content with their own free will. Antivax people during covid and extreme "conservatives" are prime examples