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I absolutely hate the unwanted recommendations and Reels, but I currently still find FB useful for staying in contact with extended family and friends, so I use
by binarynate 4y ago
I absolutely hate the unwanted recommendations and Reels, but I currently still find FB useful for staying in contact with extended family and friends, so I use this "Facebook Hide Recommendations and Reels" browser extension to keep FB useable:
https://github.com/mrinc/Facebook-Hide-Recommendations-and-Reels/ https://github.com/mrinc/Facebook-Hide-Recommendations-and-R...
Even with recommendations and Reels disabled, other aspects of FB have also degraded significantly:
- Friends don't share original content there as much as they used to, a sign that FB's relevance is dwindling. I suspect people have also grown wary of Facebook's privacy practices like I have.
- FB's features lack taste. For example, its knock-off of Bitmoji looks terrible.
- Increasing prevalence of scammers. I tried to sell some things on FB Marketplace last week and was contacted by a dozen fake profiles trying to scam me with fake emails from Zelle. I also frequently get friend requests from profiles where scammers created a duplicate of a friend's profile, copying their exact name and pictures.
Taken together, my feeling is that facebook.com is (and has been) on a downward spiral toward irrelevance.
- legitster 4y agoWow! This extension is great! Thanks. > I suspect people have also grown wary of Facebook's privacy practices like I have I do not think this really tracks for the average user. Most people use social media because they a) want to be seen or b) want content tailored to their interest. Ironically, FB now offers neither. So even my wife, who will gladly give out her info for any sweepstakes she can doesn't really find anything particularly interesting anymore.
- binarynate 4y agoYou're welcome! And I think you're right, the privacy issues probably aren't a concern for the average user.