• desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      Lemmy is far from normal, it is not profitable as a social media platform and is reliant on donations and generosity.

      Google AdSense does similar things to meta, as does amazon. This is far from a misuse, of the technology as that implies that this isn’t accomplishing the intended goal, which, aside from laws trying to differentiate children from adults, it does.

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        1 month ago

        Neither google (at least for the first decade or so) or Amazon have such detailed data about you as facebook

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        1 month ago

        Yeah, sorry, but while still going too far, these companies get dwarved by meta when it comes to these practices. I work with certain advertising platforms and know it inside out (don’t judge me lol). No way can we target based on emotional state or anything even closely resmlembling that.