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Good news for people who hate the feed algorithms here.

The European Union is working on a draft law to protect its citizens against manipulation through targeted ads and content. In this proposal, content providers may no longer take sensitive personal details into account to control what you see, including medical issues, sexual orientation or religion, and any kind of personalization will be forbidden for minors.

Platforms must also provide transparency about the goal of an algorithm, such as retaining your attention, and offer multiple algorithms, one of which must not be based on your behavior at all, for example purely chronological.

If this proposal is put into law, SW will have to bring back the full uncensored feed for European users, and knowing them, they'll then probably give it to users in the rest of the world too, or those could use a VPN to get access to this feature.
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DDonde · 31-35, M
They need to make sure to be clear about the language of "algorithm" here to specifically mean the algorithms of feeds on social media.
It would not be at all practical (or secure) to give a run-down of the goal every algorithm used by a web application.
@DDonde they probably will. I haven't read the proposal, but heard a quick summary in a tv item about privacy on the internet and the intention sounded good. I'm sure it will have to be(come) much more detailed before being put up for a vote.