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Facebook sells access to you, through their highly targeted advertising platform. Ads consume your mental focus, bandwidth, battery power, and screen real-estat
by losteric 9y ago
Facebook sells access to you, through their highly targeted advertising platform. Ads consume your mental focus, bandwidth, battery power, and screen real-estate.
You are a product, in the same way that celebrities are products.
- matte_black 9y agoSo not at all then. You don’t buy celebrities you buy their output. A billboard by a highway doesn’t mean that traffic is now the product. You’re selling placement.
- icebraining 9y agoThe placement is only worth anything because of the traffic. Your distinction is not false, but is it relevant in practice?