Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"
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Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on May 2, 2011
http://www.ted.com As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.
Read our community Q&A with Eli (featuring 10 ways to turn off the filter bubble): http://on.ted.com/PariserQA
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@kaney1967 Still though reddit use google analytics
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The internet searches we receive seem to be an impartial picture of our personality. Your searches could come up as pleasure seeking activities or seeing the world as it really is. Do you have an aversion to truth or is fantasy a large part of your world? There are also things that give us pleasure. That is what governs our searches, really, and the automated search engines give us back what we seek the most. Sometimes we must dive into pain to find the future pleasures in life.
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There should be programs that flummux the search engines that snoop into your interests. Is there a program you can use to increase your anonymity?
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@alexicon89 so true :), silly us
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I wonder when this will change... I think your only hope is sites like Reddit.
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Excellent talk.
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I liked this video and google suggested some other videos based on the fact that I liked this. Ironic?
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@MLStrand56 "DuckDuckGo (dot-com)"
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@WilliamABoi The speaker didn't accuse FB of having political motives nor of censoring people from others of opposing views. He actually doesn't imply those. He's merely pointing out the bad aspects of FB and others tailoring what they think interests you based on your tastes. You understand the mechanism, but are wrongly accusing the speaker of accusing FB of censorship. He's pointing out a failure of the system, not implying censorship.
Habakkuk2v20 3 months ago 31
OH! I forgot.
You already live in a filter bubble in real life :) especially in America..
alexicon89 1 month ago 10