I always have issues with YouTube, and so should you

This sounds like a US thing, not an AI thing

In UI jargon, “chrome” means the non-content UI that frames what you actually care about, by analogy to the decorative chrome trim on old cars: shiny, attention-grabbing “window dressing” around the “real” thing. Mozilla documentation from 1999 talks about “window chrome” as the browser’s UI framing.

Google named their browser “Chrome” as an ironic nod to minimizing UI chrome. So the name literally comes from the use of the metal chromium on cars.

In some ways yes, but this effect would appear with any kind of reinforcement learning whether it’s neural networks or just fuzzy logic. The goal is to promote certain behaviors and if it performs the behaviors that you promoted then the method works.

The problem is that, just like with KPI:s, promoting specific indicators too hard leads to suboptimal results.

Oh OK my bad, that was news to me. I stopped using it a couple of years ago when Firefox got the functionality built in, and it wasn’t advertised as an ad blocker back then.

Ghostery isn’t even an ad blocker, it’s just to prevent tracking.