Finnish user says tech personalization keeps failing him
What happened
A Hacker News front-page post on Nov 5 relays a Finnish user's complaints about tech companies' personalization. He lists his own cases: after buying a purple controller he was still recommended the same controller; after years of skipping electronic music with vocals, the algorithm never picked up the preference; searching on an English account still sent him to a Finnish-language page. He concludes personalization has almost entirely failed, and asks why, if user data is tracked, stored and sold at scale, it can't at least be used to understand basic preferences. The post gives no company response.
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- Hacker News front pageI wish tech companies knew more about me
一位芬兰用户列举亲身经历，指出科技公司的个性化推荐几乎全部失效：刚买过紫色手柄仍被推同款手柄，多年跳过带人声的电子乐却从未被算法识别，用英文账户搜索却跳转到芬兰语页面。他质疑，既然数据已被大量追踪、存储和出售，为何不能至少真正用起来。
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