To be fair, the article is correctly linked in the comments

In my experience the YouTube algorithm is very easily manipulated. Just scroll through your feed and select "not interested" for what you dislike. The type of content changes very quickly.

Over the years I’ve probably „blocked“ every single term from the Star Wars universe. Yet as soon as the next iteration of the franchise approaches box offices I find myself flooded with the most absurd cross-marketing videos you can imagine. Not talking about (official) ads. I have the strong impression the algorithm either takes ad campaigns into account — or is being abused by advertisers very successfully.

Makes sense, ads are payed per impression, so if a company soaks away more impressions that don't lead to actions then that means more revenue. I guess the trick is to make sure your still - only just - the best cpm around.

I'm not completely sure but I believe that area has at least 97% of the population of Canada.

There's a slider to choose the area of the circle of each satellite, so maybe mine are just way too big.

> a single company that started a decade ago as a side project for a guy who was trying to make electric cars after making money on the internet.

I believe this is backwards, SpaceX was created first and it was implied in the biography that it's more as if Tesla was the side project.

Tesla was a hostile takeover by Musk who was already an investor (arguably the largest/primary investor), as existing leadership was not focused on getting revenue in the door fast enough for the org to survive (circa 2007).

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-fired-tesla-ce...

Disclaimer: Long time TSLA investor

Both analogies are correct and usable in this context

I've set easy keyboard shortcuts to enable/disable the touchpad, and that has been working for me. But I understand how you feel, the palm rejection is especially terrible, no matter how I try to tweak it.