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Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DeFilippo

discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo.

And I'm Brian Schulmeister. We got some follow-up from last week's episode or last week.

That's also confusing now. The previous episode, we'll go with that, where we

wrote in about how Netflix was starting to do self-promoting ads running in between your binge

watching and whatnot. There is a way to opt out of them because it is just a test feature.

And apparently if you use your web browser, you have to do it in the browser, not in the app.

You can go into your settings and remove yourself from test participation, which I would probably

do anyways because who wants to be a test subject for Netflix? Yeah, really. And what's this

auto opt-in for test and beta features? That's kind of some BS. That's such old school complaining

on this show, Jason. Oh, yeah. That's the way it goes now. That's how it all works.

So yes, you are obviously automatically opted into everything that everybody wants to do to you

these days. You never have to go in and do it yourself. They do it for you because a feature,

not a bug, right, Jason? Well, that's right. That's right. Yes. And last week,

that did it again. Last show. You talked about the New York Times article about the

anti-refugee violence being stoked by social media in Germany. And there's a good article over on

slate that talks about how the New York Times really shouldn't have done that. And about how

these study was not a completed study that some of the facts that the New York Times pulled out of

there weren't even in the study that it's posted on a site that's known to be works in progress.

And then they already changed things from the time that this time has wrote the article.

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