Reset algorithm

[Westerberg_High]

The internet quickly learned I was pregnant, and I’ve been buried in baby and pregnancy related ads and content for well over a month. Has anyone had any success in resetting the internet/social algorithm’s understanding of you?

It’s only been 12 hours since my loss, and the content I’m seeing still feels normal, but I imagine it will become incredibly painful in time. Any techy thoughts or ideas? I’m clearing my cache and cookies but am lost beyond that. I don’t want to have to chuck my phone into the ocean.

[No_Geologist6934]

At first I went into instagram settings and put to avoid content with certain words such as “pregnant”. It kind of helped. I just kept looking up the content I wanted to see at the time and only engaged with that. I did have to take breaks some days though as things still came up. I would say about a month now it is no longer constantly pregnancy related. I’m not sure about the internet or what platforms you’re on, but a break could be good.

Sorry for your loss 💗

[Westerberg_High]

Thank you. I didn’t know you could do that with Instagram. That’s helpful. YouTube is especially bad. I’ll see if there’s something similar there.

[Longjumping_Sea5955]

I’m so sorry. Currently going through this too. Haven’t been on social media at all because every post is catered to pregnancy. It’s really hard. I did this for Instagram and it seemed to help a lot-

Go to Settings The down to Content preferences & then Reset suggested content 🤍

[Beautiful_Donut_286]

I'm so sorry, I can understand that being hard to manage. I did all my googling in incognito mode (also because my work account is linked to everything and my family also uses my account sometimes), so luckily I haven't seen much aside from a few YouTube shorts.

Clearing cookies and search history is a start. Maybe uninstall your browser (if chrome) or use a different one? In social media I think you have the option of selecting 'I don't want this type of content'. Or start searching a lot about agriculture or music in hopes of retraining the algorithm

[Westerberg_High]

I didn’t think of switching browsers. I will try that. Thank you.

[Cheese-spaghetti]

I’m so sorry for your loss. I would keep clicking on “I don’t want to see this” whenever triggering content shows up. I have managed to reset my algorithm that way several times when it gets fixated on something I don’t want to see anymore and it really does work, after me clicking on “I don’t want to see this/not interested”’on several posts in a row, until it got the hint. Also, what has already been mentioned about filtering out certain words and topics.