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Hey, don’t beat yourself up about it. Who hasn’t accidentally bombed a camp of displaced peoples? The important thing is to apologize and try not to get caught bomb the next one.

“Winamp, it really whips the llama’s ass”

I… partially agree? There’s a bit of a difference between the targeted tracking a private individual does with an airtag, vs the generalized, but equally creepy tracking google/apple/others do through widespread tech. One definitely poses a greater short term risk than the other

They should take it literally, because it is meant literally!

They’re not exploiting customers, they are exploiting people. Those people are NOT their customers.

Facebook is literally selling people in data form. Everything you post, everyone you interact with, everything you look at across most of the web (not just facebook.com) is all catalogued and used to create a fingerprint that is a digital representation of you, and that is their product! “Essence of /u/Melt for sale here”

Their customers are advertisers.

ETA: Link

those running Facebook groups routinely find that their content isn’t even being shown to those who choose to follow them thanks to Meta’s outright abusive approach to social media where the customer is not only wrong, but should ideally have little control over what they see.

inhales deeply YOU ARE NOT THE CUSTOMER!!! YOU ARE THE PRODUCT!!!

It astounds me how many people STILL don’t understand this

I prefer flipping that number on it’s head. 15%. They delivered 15% of what they promised and are now saying “fuck it.”

It’s the equivalent of writing your name on the exam, and then sitting there doodling for the rest of the time.

I’ve just spent the last 3 days reading this off of your rec. It’s… wild. And then to follow it up by seeing this is just… too weird.

I feel this. I’m well aware that if my partner wasn’t on Facebook, we wouldn’t have a social life. I HATE that fact, but that, sadly, is where people put their events. I don’t think I’d join if she left, but I can’t deny that I benefit from her being on the platform.

She won’t leave until everybody else does, and they won’t leave until everybody else does, and so nobody leaves. It’s dystopian.

Thanks, that was a great answer! I had no idea it was so complicated. I was definitely in the naive camp there.

You’re forgetting about the schmuck on the other end of that equation that has to answer the same question a thousand times over.

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After covid, this strikes me as a dangerous thing to say. Are you an immunologist and could you expound on this?

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To. Protect. It.

You really have no idea what you’re talking about, do you?

Net neutrality is the status quo, it’s not trying to “solve” anything

Have they said that or are you just implying that? It’s beta right now but I’d put money on them following in Google’s footsteps and integrating right into the main search.

It’s enshitification because instead of simply fixing their crappy SEO laden results, they’re pushing this new thing.

I’m also willing to bet that once it’s out of beta there will be either a limit on free searches or it’ll just be straight up subscription model.

And just like that, normal search is dead, and the only viable option is to pay for their new thing

Aaaaand the DDG enshitification begins… continues? continues.

Invader Zim. Haven’t watched it in years but I still quote it.

I take your point, and agree when it comes to Google

But here’s rabbit hole for anyone interested. That brand name being synonymous with the product thing is actually fairly regional.

We just call them tissues here. I think you can get Kleenex brand here, but I don’t think anybody cares about the brand of tissue. There’s a particular kind that has some kind of aloe Vera extract which is all I’ll use if I’m sick, but I don’t even know what brand they are.

On the flip side, we call marker pens Biros, and where I grew up we called them Khokis