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To: jurroppi1

Be careful of browser add-ons. Know who wrote them and if they can be trusted.

A browser add-on could be spying on your your browsing. Just sayin’


2 posted on 06/22/2023 12:58:24 PM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: z3n

Are they any worse than the browser itself?

Not just in politics, but in many topics, I type in the correct spelling of a health term, or an IT term or a consumer product.

The browser changes the correct spelling to some other spelling totally unrelated to what I typed in. Sometimes the browser mentions that results are for something different than what I looked for. Sometimes the browser doesn’t mention it.

This seems to be true of Firefox, Google, Edge. But I haven’t wasted my time documenting it.

Some changes are obviously to products who paid for plaement. But many times they are to what is best described as
CONFIRMTION BIAS.

AI makes this worse. AI is trained on confirmation bias data and exponentially doubles down on the confirmaton bias. AI only knows what it is told.... just like the rest of us.


19 posted on 06/22/2023 3:21:06 PM PDT by spintreebob (ki .h g)
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