Okay, apparently you’re missing the entire point of what I’m saying. This isn’t about somebody having a weird Google search. It’s about recognizing engagement farming and understanding why these posts exist in the first place.
Go look at the poster’s profile. Look at the history of their submissions across multiple threads, the repetitive nature of the posts, and the amount of karma they’ve accumulated. You’ll see a pattern. Posts like “Your rapper name is the last thing you Googled” or “What was your first car?” are designed to get people to volunteer information about themselves. Individually, those questions seem harmless. Collectively, they can be used to build profiles of users, track engagement, and feed recommendation or advertising algorithms.
I’m saying this account looks like engagement farming, potentially automated or part of a larger bot operation. I can’t prove from the profile alone that it’s a bot farm or that it’s building a personal-information database, but the pattern is absolutely worth questioning.
And that’s the point you seem determined not to understand. If you can’t be bothered to examine an account before handing it your attention and personal information, that’s your choice. But don’t confuse someone pointing out a suspicious pattern with someone being embarrassed about their search history.
If you want to volunteer information to suspicious accounts without asking why they’re collecting it, go right ahead. Just don’t mistake your inability to recognize the pattern for evidence that the pattern doesn’t exist. A little pattern recognition and critical thinking would go a long way.
I can tell it's engagement farming that's sort of what the whole subreddit is about but if you're so against it I just want you to know that commenting on it at all gives it engagement and makes these people want to continue.
Thank you, Captain Obvious. I’m well aware of how engagement farming works. The reason I commented in the first place was precisely because I recognized what was going on. Some of us can recognize the game without needing it explained to us.
But isn’t it a little hypocritical to jump into the comments to lecture someone about engagement while contributing to that very engagement yourself? A little thin-skinned, are we?
The point wasn’t to feed the farm. It was to make it clear that some of us see exactly what’s happening. So before getting your knickers in a twist over someone else’s comment, perhaps take a moment to consider whether you’re actually making the point you think you’re making.
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u/Lance_gray2020 11h ago
I cast no because you will not have access to my Google search. You will not have access to my privacy.