cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/23396300

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it would be cool if websites let you be an adult on them. the advertisers and payment processors need everything to be Family Friendly though and their definitions of family and friendly are absolutely fucked. but since they’re in charge of the Internet now, no one is allowed to be an adult. tiktokers say things like “unalive” and “seggs” because they know death and sex are too adult for online. online is for idiot babies only now because they’re easier to market to

nickyflowers replies:
oh im sorry you’re a trans adult? super ban. you are super banned for life. you have upset Visa’s feelings. Mastercard is throwing up in the corner. how could you do this to Google Ads?

  • Elle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    1 day ago

    That’s the corporate web: sterile, intrusive, manipulative, endless list of negative descriptors.

    It’s why you gotta take whatever’s of value from it and put it elsewhere so you can get away from it as much as possible. Then spend more of your time using the public web intentionally for things that you enjoy and interest you, instead of allowing the corporate web to use you.

  • MudMan@fedia.io
    19·
    1 day ago

    The euphemistic language trend is baffling to me. For sure it’s not a censorship problem, right? Adding a synonym to a profanity dictionary is trivial, it wouldn’t fool anybody for any amount of time.

    • (⬤ᴥ⬤)OPEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      and then another synonym would be used, and then another and another and by the end of month 1 you’ve banned half of the oxford dictionary and the kiddies have already moved on to ancient Aramaic. or more realistically diacritic/lookalike spam, good luck filtering that!

      you could probably make some sentiment analysis system to autoflag things but why would you bother? i doubt tiktok really gives a shit, it doesn’t have morals or a goal beyond its next quarterly report, as long as it can word “we’re doing the barest minimum, fuck off” into something more polite it’s all good in their books i reckon

      • MudMan@fedia.io
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        1 day ago

        Yeah, people say this, but having seen a profanity filter in action… turns out most things do get caught. People just aren’t that motivated.

        It’s a bit different when you’re tuning an algorithm and people are just trying to cover a subject you’ve decided to disincentivize, I suppose, but then why bother? I guess as a token gesture towards regulators, maybe? Socials do seem keen on keeping the tone kid-friendly, though. There’s lots of future money in those kids, you can’t go scaring them off before you shake them by the ankles.

  • i_dont_want_toEnglish
    8·
    1 day ago

    One of the few things I thought that Maddox (“The Best Page in the Universe”) got right was his viewpoint on ads. He refused to run them because he didn’t want to have to censor himself to not offend the advertisers.