Well, awareness is more of a defense than most people put up. Any effort at all, is fringe behavior.Would you mind providing more details about this?
I don't use most social media. Not that I'm too smart/good for it, but because the ways social media hacks users has been a topic here forever.
As a former soldier, I know I can be hacked. So the benefit just didn't seem worth it, to me. I know I am susceptible, that changes the math.
But I do use search engines, and video sites, and podcasts, etc. So I do have some algorithm exposure.
I try to let the algorithm run. It's meant to be helpful. It is our own laziness that let's the algorithm steer.
I tend toward contrarian thinkers. From all over the map. That flags me for other shows. It's just another fun pattern to watch, seeing where I am being pushed. And because I am looking for depth of analysis, the push is obvious.
It comes as someone culturally similar, but entirely different quality. An algorithm match. Since I am not looking for people I agree with, the cultural match is off-putting.
I regularly use multiple search engines, Google/Chrome, then run the most successful query thru Firefox/duckduckgo, to see what is different.
When I'm looking for something, and not finding it, I will go to umbuntu. I keep an old PC with Linux, but don't use it often. It works for helping me find neutral.
One can never really know the limits on what one knows. Am I subject to the effects of algorithms? Absolutely. But I try to error correct by watching how I am being steered.