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Facebook's terribleness runs much deeper than targeted advertising. It's been hostile and condescending to its users from day one.
by stanleydrew 5y ago
Facebook's terribleness runs much deeper than targeted advertising. It's been hostile and condescending to its users from day one.
- Nextgrid 5y agoI don't disagree - but being user-hostile aligns perfectly with their business model. The problem isn't a given implementation, it's the business model itself. IMO it should be outlawed to profit off intentionally wasting people's time and promoting inflammatory content for the sake of "engagement", but drafting a law that would effectively cover this would be a major challenge (you could argue that the people doom-scrolling Instagram want the engagement-generating inflammatory content they are being fed), so my next alternative is to simply strengthen privacy regulations to make this kind of business unprofitable.