And yet how many times does some tech journalist/tech worker/tech worshipper tell us that Big Tech knows us better than we know ourselves. Maybe advertisers believe it. Even if Big Tech knows what computer users want, it does not mean that is what they will try to serve to them.

I have scripts that allow me to see which results in a YouTube search are increasing in views over time. The worst videos, with high view counts, that are the least responsive to the search terms (if even responsive at all) are being incessantly promoted by YouTube and we can see the the high view counts continue to increase day after day, for years.