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Couldn't happen to a more deserving business model. The whole surveillance economy is one big dark pattern. Not only does it prey on consumers, it's not even a
by allears 5y ago
Couldn't happen to a more deserving business model. The whole surveillance economy is one big dark pattern. Not only does it prey on consumers, it's not even a stable way to build and support the tech sector. If our best and brightest minds are using their most productive years trying to perfect the art of invasive spying in order to serve the advertising industry, what does that say about us as a country and a society?
- spicybright 5y agoIt says we value free products over morals, which is pretty accurate of the current market forces.
- thr0wawayf00 5y agoIt's always been a myth that markets are inherently moral. There's just no evidence of this, despite all of the debate that the free market is the end-all-be-all institution from which our lives should be dictated. Markets optimize for one thing and one thing only: profit.
- sp527 5y agoNot even once in my life have I heard the argument that markets are inherently moral.
- voisin 5y agoTo be fair, the choice was never given to us. There’s no such thing as a social network that people pay for that has no advertising or surveillance. This business model was chosen for us because it would lead to the fastest growth _for the company_.
- jjulius 5y ago>There’s no such thing as a social network that people pay for that has no advertising or surveillance. Forums are commonly considered to be a form of social media/a social network, and there are still many that don't track users, don't have ads, and rely on a modest annual fee (WATMM's membership price is only $3/yr, for example) from users.
- cylinder714 5y agoMetafilter?