What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen

Re:What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen by ohyes on Monday February 06, 2017 @08:46PM (#13586229)

> I had an interesting case with Instagram where after viewing enough pictures of women's butts it started also showing men's bare butts in my feed too.. at least until I never opened any of them, and they disappeared.

This truly is technology run amok. "Welcome to buttstagram, for your butt viewing pleasure."

When I think about this situation it makes me want to stay entirely away from social media and off the internet. Yet it's ubiquity in our lives makes it difficult to be integrated and participant in society without the technology. And a lot of the features really do disappear when you remain entirely anonymous (via tor, incognito, not having accounts etc).

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Re:What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen by 13of40 on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @02:27AM (#13587766)

I had a similar thing happen a year or two ago: At some point in the past I shut down my Facebook page, but a year later I created a new minimalistic one so I could stay in touch with my family. I posted a picture of a Vespa scooter I'd been restoring in the garage, and suddenly my suggested friends list started overflowing with guys in Indonesian scooter gangs and young asian ladies in head scarfs. (I friended one guy and we exchange "likes" every once in a while but even google translate doesn't understand 3/4 of what he says.)

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Re:What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen by kchoudhu on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @01:01AM (#13587423)

Wait, what's cloudstagram?

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Re:What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen by forkerenok on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @03:32AM (#13587990)

That's a very subtle joke :)

(Those in the dark search for cloud2butt browser plugin)

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Re:What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen by Fedex on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @10:32AM (#13589953)

That is my favorite extension. It subtly brightens my day when I come across one of its gems.

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Re:What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen by a3n on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @08:54AM (#13589299)

> Yet it's ubiquity in our lives makes it difficult to be integrated and participant in society without the technology.

Or: Yet the ubiquity in our lives of Stuff that was never built for us (pretty sure I never gave the billionaires at FB and Goog as much as a single dollar), but merely to lure us, makes it difficult to be integrated with and unwittingly enabling that Stuff without installing and using that Stuff.

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