[friendlybus]

I checked my youtube search history one day. It goes back to 2010 and most of the time I search for the same stuff. Particular songs I remember, specific topics. Really nothing new or interesting.

I want new info and to be connected to the world in my media. Personalised ads and media kills the sense that the media is confirming your worldview. We all know it's a tiny isolated bubble of information and rarely do recommended feeds or ads suggest something I want.

Personalised ads attune themselves to my past and I don't need to solve the same problem repeatedly.

[Someone]

Your complaint isn’t about the idea of personalized ads, per se, but about current implementations or, possibly, about the data you feed them. How would any system know you want new interesting stuff if you keep searching for not-new, uninteresting stuff?

[friendlybus]

I keep overthinking my reply. How can ad data divine the future of what I want? It can't really.