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Wow, you’ve really moulded this into something different.

• Nevermark 2y ago
  Yes. Trying to convince someone to change their opinion can easily get out of hand. Its trying to do too much. Helping people understand other people's opinions is a better stance. I.e. The person in the article finds being surveilled by a company, outside of their relationship with the company, and having that information available for advertisers to manipulate them for money disturbing, immoral and offensive. Especially for very personal attributes. And many other people do too. And the European Union. -- At some point I hope there is a wave of non-ad social media. Imagine how few resources are required to run an online scrapbook? When you don't need to have thousands of servers collating every scrap of information about you they can get, and applying ever more sophisticated AI to optimally insert "sticky" posts, reinforce your notification checking habit, finding the minimum number of organic friends & family posts they need to give you, and matching you to advertisers and ads. Applied psychology is 99% of social media's expenses. 99% of the rest is legal and lobby.