Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri • Hacker News Board

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by johnnyAghands » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 1:58 PM UTC

All cylinders firing on this one. Couldn't agree more.

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by jacknews » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 1:58 PM UTC

dunce2020 wrote: post #8

m90 wrote: post #5

I'd be way more interested in actually reading this if the headline didn't contain pointless profanities. Like this, I tag it Fanboi-ism and move on.

That's how you know the author is cool and irreverent. An iconoclast!

lol

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by dannyr » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 1:59 PM UTC

ptest1 wrote: post #15

I might be one of the few, but I like the ads I see on Instagram and have purchased lots of things via IG ads. I can’t think of any other app/site where the ads have sucked me in. I realize this is besides the point, but I thought it was worth sharing in terms of how they might be doing personalization. For me, it’s so good that it actually works.

Are the ads that good for you to be tracked by these companies everywhere you go and sacrifice your privacy?

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by nickthemagicman » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 2:00 PM UTC

trollied wrote: post #18

rospaya wrote: post #14

I hate being in a position to defend Facebook or Instagram, but independent of the size of any of the platforms, Apple is a gatekeeper for them, not the other way around.

Are you of the opinion that Apple increasing security and anonymity for the end user is a bad thing?

Is it that simple?

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by ape4 » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 2:00 PM UTC

Also Instagram has lots of other ways to get info on you. eg if you follow or like photos in CityX then they can assume you are interested in that city and show you ads about it. And so on, about any subject.

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 2:01 PM UTC

dannyr wrote: post #23

ptest1 wrote: post #15

I might be one of the few, but I like the ads I see on Instagram and have purchased lots of things via IG ads. I can’t think of any other app/site where the ads have sucked me in. I realize this is besides the point, but I thought it was worth sharing in terms of how they might be doing personalization. For me, it’s so good that it actually works.

Are the ads that good for you to be tracked by these companies everywhere you go and sacrifice your privacy?

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Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by mikeymz » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 2:02 PM UTC

m90 wrote: post #5

I'd be way more interested in actually reading this if the headline didn't contain pointless profanities. Like this, I tag it Fanboi-ism and move on.

welcome to the world of grown ups. there is effin and jeffin everywhere

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by sascha_sl » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 2:03 PM UTC

syllable_studio wrote: post #19

I CAN'T WAIT for decentralized infrastructure to finally become robust enough that clones of instagram and facebook can all share a network -- they'll all become portals to the same social graph data. When that happens, there will no longer be any reason to put up with this abuse of privacy garbage.

Mastodon and Pixelfed already exist and are very functional, the issue is that all instances of the above are run with a hobby-grade SLA and mixed moderation policies and users that do not understand federated services. Even domains on emails get defaulted to gmail.com when in doubt now.

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by thrwn_frthr_awy » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 2:04 PM UTC

ptest1 wrote: post #15

I might be one of the few, but I like the ads I see on Instagram and have purchased lots of things via IG ads. I can’t think of any other app/site where the ads have sucked me in. I realize this is besides the point, but I thought it was worth sharing in terms of how they might be doing personalization. For me, it’s so good that it actually works.

But can't you still have that same experience? Isn't Apple simply requiring Instagram to ask you if would like to be tracked?

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by mola » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 2:06 PM UTC

syllable_studio wrote: post #19

I CAN'T WAIT for decentralized infrastructure to finally become robust enough that clones of instagram and facebook can all share a network -- they'll all become portals to the same social graph data. When that happens, there will no longer be any reason to put up with this abuse of privacy garbage.

If these will be as popular, we'll still be left with mass disinformation campaigns and culture wars though.