@Daojoan
I have not - to my knowledge - received that personalised experience.
But I'm British, so perhaps the environment is less immersive for me (no product placement, for instance); and I've always resisted any advertising (I haven't got a television, and that's a large part of the reason). And the default settings for almost any piece of software I use are not the ones I want.
@Daojoan
I don't feel "conditioned" by the alleged personal experience I get from recommendations on sites like Amazon, or from the supposedly personalized ads Microsoft, Google, Facebook submit to my viewing.
Mostly I feel dysphoria, wading through a visual swamp of commercial, consumer claptrap all clamouring for me to buy! buy! buy!
If they want my attention, then present me with philosophy, literate quotes, science, images of nature. Not more stuff to buy.
@Daojoan I know this is just my subjective take, but I never asked for this. For me, such internet and web features always had to stay optional. If I will want recommendations, I will ask, thank you.
For most parts, such systems have been designed without acknowledgment of users, just to keep them "engage" with platform, without any positive or negative weights for them.
@Daojoan Except the personalized experiences are always wrong. I'm constantly being presented with items I don't like, don't want, and don't need. Often it's because I've just bought a similar item -- which will last for years.
Personalized experience vs data collection is presented as an either/or situation, but it isn't.
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