arcticblue

arcticblue t1_jdxndqi wrote

It's even worse now with how aggressively they shove garbage "reels" in your face. All the reels I've seen have been incredibly stupid clickbait or just some dumbass video of a pretty girl staring in to the camera or taking her underwear off under a long shirt. I have yet to see a reel that is actually entertaining or funny and it's become so annoying that I rarely even log on to Facebook any more.

Also, I aggressively clicked the "Don't show me this page" link on every single "Suggested post" a couple years ago while also browsing in a container tab in Firefox. Evidently if you deprive Facebook of enough metrics to collect on you, you run the risk of getting banned without warning for "not being your authentic self". They demanded a government ID from me, then ignored me. It took me almost 6 months to get my account back. If it weren't for the fact that I had some baby pics of my kids uploaded there with no other backup, I would have just left it banned.

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arcticblue t1_j5jm2pa wrote

Another thing Waze does really well that everything else I've used has failed at is international navigation. I live in Japan and most of my stuff is configured to use English because that's my preferred language (I can listen more or less OK, but still can't read kanji very well) and Apple and Google Maps fails hard trying to pronounce road names and such. Apple maps will sound like an American doubling down on American-style pronunciation of names which sounds awful (sounds are wrong, tone is wrong, everything is just bad) while Google Maps will fail to even recognize that the roads are Japanese and speak them in some form of Chinese instead. It may as well be gibberish. Waze, on the other hand, recognizes this and will switch navigation to Japanese while everything else remains English. It's so much better.

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