Because of the general culture and mindset. Haven’t found that anywhere else. That mindset also means they’re going to get a whole lot of poison in their datasets.

I like that too and I don’t understand why people are so very fundamentally against having stuff recommended to them based on what they’re already following.

Yep.

Those evil, evil bastards did not think you were important enough to waste time writing a reply. Shame on them. Shame I say.

This was sarcasm, btw. Get over yourself.

Thankfully the phone regularly probes home to fix this sort of mess

Wait, I thought that just accepted everything? Because if you don’t care about cookies, you’d be fine with anything, no? But “rejecting” cookie banners to me implies rejecting cookies which is different if I’m not mistaken.

What? The original argument was “Just because it exists doesn’t make it good.”, implying that it (click-bait thumbnails) doesn’t necessarily work. To which I said that the fact that it exists means it works. To which you seemed to object by saying that there may be people who have an interest in it existing - like they want it to exist despite it actually not working. I’m confused about what it is you’re saying.

What “interest” would they have to keep it that way if it wasn’t working?

Wealth inequality exists because it works for the people who have the power to control it. In a way, it’s not harmful ENOUGH to change evolutionarily.

Nobody said “good”, but if it keeps existing, it works or at least isn’t harmful. Bit like evolution.