Hypothetically if you clicked on a link in Twitter or wherever to a GBeebies video on YouTube (or something the algorithm considers similar) then it will register that as you showing interest in that. You're not signed in and aren't curating what it shows you with their "Not Interested" or "Don't Recommend This Channel" functions, so all it has to go on are the visits to the video. It doesn't know why you've watched it either, so watching it to see what that braindead cunt said this time counts just the same as watching it because you believe in it.
It may not even be that you watch that sort of video, but based on the sort of video you do watch they can build up a profile and take a guess about what they think is likely to interest you based on what other people who watch those things also watch.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 19 May 2023, 17:26,
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It's not that clever then,
you'd think that me ignoring everything it shoves in my direction might encourage it to try shoving something a bit different.
A while back a colleague of mine told me I should watch everything while signed in, to better tailor the new material I get presented with. No ta, I think I'll keep scrolling past Jim Davidson's Meghan Opinions rather than give Google even more personal data to sell to advertisers.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 19 May 2023, 19:33,
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