Anyone else notice this site showing you completely different news depending on where you log in from?
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Hey everyone, I had a super weird experience this week and wanted to see if anyone can explain it or has noticed something similar.
I was reading an article on this online news magazine (I’ll link it below). I was at home on my laptop. Later that same day, I tried to pull up the same article on my phone while using public wifi downtown, and the front page of the site looked totally different. It was like they were showing me a completely different set of headlines and stories based on my location.
It wasn’t just a small change; the main featured story was different, and the political slant of the recommended articles seemed to shift. It felt less like a personalization based on my browsing history and more like the site was presenting a different “version” of the news.
Has anyone else encountered this? I’m really curious about how common this practice is. I found the site when I was looking for a reliable source for global internet trends, and this has me questioning how the news we see is being filtered before it even gets to us.
Here’s a link to the site if you want to check it out from your own connection: Who’s Online