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by hobs 1611 days ago
I see posts like this and just think that as far as I can tell DD's recommendations are:

  Ads
  Ads
  Ads
  Shitty place nobody would want to eat
  Shitty place nobody would want to eat
  Shitty place nobody would want to eat
  Shitty place nobody would want to eat
  Oh look something interesting
3 comments

I have the same experience as you, and it's one of the main reasons why I try to call places for takeout instead (or use a local app).

I (idly) wonder whether they're optimizing for the wrong(?) things: throwing a bunch of garbage up front maximizes the amount of time that I spend in-app, which is probably one of their key metrics. What they don't(?) realize is that I'm spending all that time filtering through the dreck, and so the metric is really measuring my frustration and not my engagement.

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