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now I am resentful about FB dark patterns and practices like the next guy here, but let's be clear - unless we absolve ourselves from freedom of our choices, it
by saiya-jin 9y ago
now I am resentful about FB dark patterns and practices like the next guy here, but let's be clear - unless we absolve ourselves from freedom of our choices, it is WE who go here, it s WE who scroll, click likes and shares, talk crap, whateva. All these browser extensions, hosts blacklists, even router settings, out of those capable here, maybe 0.01% did it. I didn't.
All this stuff tells much more about ourselves than some petty (yet highly valuable) company. And most people don't like the message. This is as much about forcing the company to make better product for its users (even if it means its eventual demise, which over long enough timeline is inevitable) as a very valuable introspection. We can skip that part and just hate more, but it would be a wasted opportunity, don't you think?