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reducing consumption would be a benefit if you think about it from a climate change angle... For restaurants, I usually search for them in a directory and not
by OrgNet 7y ago
reducing consumption would be a benefit if you think about it from a climate change angle...
For restaurants, I usually search for them in a directory and not in ads...
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- nrb 7y agoThat directory is almost invariably funded with money from advertisements
- OrgNet 7y agowell, I guess they can be considered ads, but at least I don't get bombarded with them on every site I visit (like google ads)... I have to voluntarily go search for them on a specific site...
- spullara 7y agoHow do you think that directory makes the money necessary to produce and maintain it? Generally, ads.
- alephnan 7y agoIn NYC, there are many pop up events including food events, which wouldn’t show up in a food directory site, but they do show up on Instagram ads.
- buckminster 7y agoMy town has a couple of stuff-happening-today directories. (Or this week or this month.) Doesn't NYC?
- alephnan 7y agoThere’s just so much going on I guess. There are times where I don’t mind FB knowing what my interests are.
- cm2012 7y agoPop-up events are likely "advertising" according to this site, which includes pretty much every form of communication or display not explicitly asked for.
- StavrosK 7y agoA few years ago, I made a website that used the Facebook API to look up events in my city (I had to manually add all the venues) and show them in a nice interface on a single page, with no ads, etc. It was amazing, I loved being able to see all the week's events in a single view. Then Facebook decided to shut down the public events API, and that was the end of the site. The morals of the story are two: You can be notified of pop up events without being data-mined, and fuck Facebook (I know, it's "their" data, but I hate it anyway).