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Funnily enough this entire website feels manipulative.
by friedman23 5y ago
Funnily enough this entire website feels manipulative.
- pphysch 5y agoYeah leading with a baseless "X IS HARMING YOU" is one of the more manipulative techniques
- mandmandam 5y ago... Baseless? Really? Did you not hear about the whole Cambridge Analytica thing? Even if you think they overblew their claims, there are so many more examples to choose from. All you have to do is look. People have written books on the harm done; or YouTube videos, if you prefer.
- pphysch 5y agoPeople write books on all sorts of nonsense, with attention-grabbing titles if they are savvy.
- mandmandam 5y agoSorry, your point is that since there are books full of nonsense out there, the books about this issue may well be nonsense too? And so you're not even going to look at them. But you'll maintain these people are spending billions on our data for "harmless" reasons. But you won't look at any evidence of harm. Because nonsense exists. ... Seems like an odd take.
- pphysch 5y agoYou've had like 10 sentences to provide examples of how superficially tracking my web activity is LITERALLY HARMING me, and instead you vaguely gesture at "books" and "videos" and resort to logical fallacies... Thinking emoji.
- mandmandam 5y agoYou've had like ten years to read a book or watch a video for yourself, yet claim that mass data aggregation is harmless and superficial. Not sure you ought to be allowed a thinking emoji tbh.
- pphysch 5y agoYou will be happier if you stop fretting about pointless stuff like this, trust me.
- kkjjkgjjgg 5y agoYeah Cambridge Analytica was bullshit. Bad example. And unfortunately people seem to enjoy the content the algorithm feeds them. They even switch to networks with better algorithms (see TikTok). Typically for the Green party, you can't be allowed to have fun things.