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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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FeetAreFantastic · 41-45, M
I don't see it happening, but it's a hopeful thought
@FeetAreFantastic the concept has already been approved and although details still have to be filled in, it is planned to become effective in 2024. Then SW doesn't have much of a choice other than complying or declining access from the EU and I doubt they'll even consider the latter.
FeetAreFantastic · 41-45, M
@NerdyPotato I realize that. I'm still skeptical though when something sounds too good to be true. And even if it does happen, they will find a way around it.