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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

even a scathing rant about surveillance capitalism becomes fodder for the machine, as you can clearly see with the ads on this page. 

Ads? I can see no ads...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Centralized social media is an advertisement platform that targets advertisements according to information & conduct users feed the platform, and some of those users are teenagers?

They're advertising cosmetics to teenagers unlike ever before in the history of teen-centric media?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (10 children)

And tiktok is supposed to be our enemy?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Por que no los dos?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

TikTok absolutely does the same kind of thing and worse. Engagement is all that matters. Doesn't matter what kind, what about, or how that engagement is generated.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The book is very good. Reading it now. The writer starts off with a great story about a shark attack.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

How did they come up with this idea? Did the algorithm suggest this pattern, or did someone in marketing come up with it?

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