Post by Bill in the rain on Sept 25, 2021 13:17:25 GMT
I use DuckDuckGo, uBlock and Firefox.
Using firefox also means I can use Containers when needed.
That doesn't help much with site/service specific stuff like Netflix/youtube/Audible/Spotify recommendations though.
Though those can be actually useful at times.
Youtube generally is useless, because it thinks that if I watch one video on a subject then it should recommend me 800 identical videos for all time.
That said, I've found youtube's 'related videos' quite handy for finding new music. I discovered a whole bunch of new bands over the last year from that.
The other thing I've been doing a lot recently, probably because of the pandemic, is following particular actors around from show to show / movie to movie. I found a few shows I'd never normally have tried just because they happened to have an actor or actress that I liked in a movie or something.
I've also gotten a huge number of interesting book/tv/movie/music leads from the various 'What are you reading/watching/listening to?' threads on the PRS forums.. so i'm hoping that'll continue here.
Of course, the RPS forums were small enough that we were probably our own bubble in a way... most books were sci-fi/fantasy, for example.
Using firefox also means I can use Containers when needed.
That doesn't help much with site/service specific stuff like Netflix/youtube/Audible/Spotify recommendations though.
Though those can be actually useful at times.
Youtube generally is useless, because it thinks that if I watch one video on a subject then it should recommend me 800 identical videos for all time.
That said, I've found youtube's 'related videos' quite handy for finding new music. I discovered a whole bunch of new bands over the last year from that.
The other thing I've been doing a lot recently, probably because of the pandemic, is following particular actors around from show to show / movie to movie. I found a few shows I'd never normally have tried just because they happened to have an actor or actress that I liked in a movie or something.
I've also gotten a huge number of interesting book/tv/movie/music leads from the various 'What are you reading/watching/listening to?' threads on the PRS forums.. so i'm hoping that'll continue here.
Of course, the RPS forums were small enough that we were probably our own bubble in a way... most books were sci-fi/fantasy, for example.
