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Tv failing from pushing advertising again is getting relevant to the current state of social media. The amount of time Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, etc. try to k
by LexGray 5y ago
Tv failing from pushing advertising again is getting relevant to the current state of social media.
The amount of time Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, etc. try to keep their customers away from the content they came for is astonishing.
I recently deleted Twitter because they were spamming me with notifications in the app that they were not able to spam me with notifications outside the app for live streams I never showed the slightest interest in and half the posts were topics I never chose to follow.
Reddit is neatly as bad with their random top streamer stuffed into unrelated subs, daily requests to add more interests, and a popular and news tab that are toxic.
I don’t mind the occasional sponsored item but I am pretty sure Facebook is nearing a 1:1 ratio for junk to content. There most of the content is junk too. I just check my notifications at this point because I can’t make heads or tails of what they show and what they hide or the sort order of what they do choose to present.
It is like they learned nothing from why tv and radio dying and are competing to see who becomes irrelevant the fastest.
- YuccaGloriosa 5y agoEven Facebook is trying to distance itself from Facebook these days. I accidentally went to TVguide.co.uk today, on a different PC to usual, not equipped with ad blocking, it was barely usable due to ads.