• applejacks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Part of a strange, larger trend where things get worse as technology advances.

    autocorrect, search engine results, google now -> assistant, voice recognition.

    All of those seemed to be much better a few years back.

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      Swipe on my gboard has definitely gone worse lately. Same for my YT recommendations. I never ever watch shorts, and 90% of my recommendations are 13sec clips.

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        1 year ago

        That’s you assuming they show you what YOU want and not what THEY want you to see.

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        My gboard has gotten way worse. I also have 2 languages turned on but I have multilingual suggestions turned off and it still tries to suggest words in the wrong language half the time

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        You need to very consistently mark every short video as Not Interested and then avoid watching them like the plague. It worked for me but took about a week of doing it.

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        What’s even more annoying is they’re capable of recommending interesting long videos, they purposefully recommend shorter videos on mobile (like less than a minute), on pc they recommend more long videos and the TV app seems to have the most long videos

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      Something gets good, but the team needs to justify continued pay so they keep developing what doesn’t need development.

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      1 year ago

      My controversial opinion is that cell phone layout designs (not tech) peaked around 2010 and were killed by the iPhone. Don’t @ me.