I think Meta and Tesla should consider merging because of the great synergy it will create. Imagine being driven to all your destinations while being plugged in to the Metaverse headset. You could enjoy beautiful sceneries while experiencing awesome real world g force. Tesla would also suddenly get billions more potential customers through their social network platforms. I would be so hyped!
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#13They really have us trapped with WhatsApp… difficult to figure out how to get off this platform
My friend group switched to Signal en masse. YMMV.
Yay, another platform without the possibility to become decentralized, with a leader who basically opposes standards based development, great step forwards.
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#15This explains the shift to Meta. The current company is basically dying, and so they are going to bet the house on something new. Apple really did a number on them by restricting the data they can collect
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#16Apple vs ad-tech is a really interesting battle. It shows the immense power Apple has in the consumer market today, where they can affect some of the largest businesses in the US unilaterally. Meta is in a very tricky position in that unless they put up an actual paywall users don’t really have any incentive to allow tracking. But putting up a paywall introduces a lot of friction, not to mention the adverse selection…
The idea of buying something based on an advertisement and not a need is foreign to me. What is a kind of ad that you consider to be “relevant”? I just block all of them so I might just not be aware of the potential.
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#18Maybe if they spent less time censoring/de-platforming they would have eyeballs to sell those ads to.
People spend more time on an app where they feel comfortable. If FB did nothing to clean up feeds, it would probably drive away both those eyeballs and the advertisers who don't necessarily want their brand to be displayed next to unfiltered user-generated content.
don't follow content that makes you uncomfortable. seems like an easy fix any user can implement on their own.
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#20Apple vs ad-tech is a really interesting battle. It shows the immense power Apple has in the consumer market today, where they can affect some of the largest businesses in the US unilaterally. Meta is in a very tricky position in that unless they put up an actual paywall users don’t really have any incentive to allow tracking. But putting up a paywall introduces a lot of friction, not to mention the adverse selection…
I think that people here (rightly) dislike advertising and having their privacy invaded to target them, not specifically targeted advertising vs. untargeted.
As an aside, something happened to my instagram ad-targeting profile a few months ago and the ads that I normally get (tech-industry stuff, photography, art shows, books...) were replaced by what I assume were lowest-common-denominator general population ads (replica-of-expensive-items scams, crypto scams, investment scams, sports, populist politicians, pawnshops, wedding services...) for a couple of weeks; it was as if looking in a nightmarish mirror universe.