Algorithms are breaking how we think

The video's creator warns early that this is a "old man yelling at cloud" kind of video and I think they do themselves a disservice with that. The ability to search for information is a skill on decline and that's a big "winning" attribute of technology: to remove as much labor as possible from humans, regardless of the task. Need a house cleaner? There's an app for that! Need to dig your heels into generational racist neighborhood watch policing? There's multiple apps for that! Looking to determine which women to prosecute based on their ovulation cycles? There's a plethora of apps for that. Surveillance aside, technology is an amplifier of the underlying behaviors we have. It can also introduce new ones that supplant others that we've developed along the way — like searching.

The video goes on to explain how despite this, YouTube still provides a way out for folks. I avoid using the YouTube app directly and use [FreeTube]^[1] to follow folks I'm wanting to stay up to date with and to open any YouTube links as a whole. Most of the money made from YouTube isn't from ads either; it's largely paid members and views (which are tied together; you're more likely to get the former when you can juice the latter — an extremely equitable platform)^[2].