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>What have Google and Facebook been doing all this time? Trying their hardest to replace quality results with things that will generate ad revenue while still
by jjulius 4y ago
>What have Google and Facebook been doing all this time?
Trying their hardest to replace quality results with things that will generate ad revenue while still making the user feel like they're getting the results they wanted.
>With all the data Google and Facebook have on everyone why is Tiktok, which I'm using with an email unconnected to anything else of mine and all iPhone privacy settings enabled, far better at showing me what I want?
I checked out TikTok for half a second and noticed that it's just damn good at going, "Hey, tenebrisalietum asked to see how to hang drywall, so show them how to hang drywall". Google sorta does that, too, but as you said, they're going, "Hey, tenebrisalietum wants to see how to hang drywall, does one of our advertisers have a video about that that we can show them? Lowe's does? Cool, fuck the quality of it, let's get that money".
TikTok knows that people just want to be shown what they ask for without all the extra bullshit. FB and Google started down the path of adding bullshit for money, and they won't go back at this point.
- sudden_dystopia 4y agoYea but TikTok has all the extra bullshit of spying on you and sending that data back to China. It’s bad enough our own government spies on us, I don’t need an wide open channel to a second.
- jjulius 4y agoOh, totally. Don't take my post as a complete defense of TikTok, I don't use it at all. I just noticed that they're smart enough to go, "Y'all know that just giving the people what they ask to see is gonna make 'em come back, right?". FB and Google used to do that but lost sight of that, and now that someone else came along and started doing it, they're shockedpikachu.jpg.
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- lancesells 4y agoTikTok will get to the Google and Facebook level of adding in advertisers. There's only so long until they turn on the faucet of billions each quarter. I'm also sure it'll get more and more gamed like SEO is on Google and whatever is people would do on Facebook.
- jjulius 4y agoAbsolutely, I'd say that's basically guaranteed. Hook 'em, then schtup 'em.