Netflix: How did it know I was bi before I did?
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Tech recommendations can reveal more about us than we know ourselves - but how and why does this happen?
  • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Headline: How did Netflix know I was gay before I did?

    Sub header: After BBC reporter Ellie House came out as gay, she realised that Netflix already seemed to know. How did that happen?

    THE FIRST FUCKING LINE OF THE FUCKING ARTICLE: I realised that I was BISEXUAL in my second year of university, but Big Tech seemed to have worked it out several months before me.

    flag-bi-pride honk-enraged

    • The Octonaut@mander.xyz
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      2 years ago

      Gay is a happily accepted term for “penis+penis”, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, whatever, in the UK & Ireland. It is basically “not straight”; you can think of it as the British word for ‘queer’, because ‘queer’ still often means, well, queer. I wish you would respect British people’s choice of how they identify; America’s obsession with clinical and distinct labeling hasn’t claimed this particular lingual nuance yet. Not everything is an attack on your chosen identity.

    • DonnieDarkmode@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I’ve noticed that “gay” is used as a more general term for members of the LGBTQ+ community, similar to how “guys” has a pretty common gender-neutral usage

      EDIT: tweaked the wording a bit

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 years ago

        “Guys” hasn’t actually been accepted as gender neutral for a number of years, due to its implicit anti-feminist bias (you’ll fit in if you act like us men).

        I struggle with not using it constantly, as it was the go-to gender neutral term for my generation.