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Who cares? Only morons use FB. Let them consume video ads.
Given so much of the video content (at least high 80s percent wise) on Facebook is simply pirated from YouTube and other creators, it seems more than a little unethical for them to start emblazoning them with ads. But, they'll happily sit behind the DMCA Safe Harbor, slowly taking down videos and reaping the ad revenue in the meanwhile without giving any of it back to creators...
It's hard to imagine a less ethical company in silicon valley than Facebook so it's not surprising
I was bothered by my mental illness this year and I live streamed my suicide attempt twice and it was not pretty to watch. Friends all freaked out and tried to get someone to help me. I guess I did that because “that’s where people get to see me”.
A few months ago I deactivated my facebook for about a month and I maintained my relationship strictly over WhatsApp. It worked great. There was no pressure. I eventually reactivated it so I can spend some more time with a really good friend.
Now, like my Instagram, most of the pages I follow now are about cats, some cultural stuff, and a number of youtubers.
I still get to see what my friends are doing and that’s great. I still share pictures and updates with my friends. But I am not so attached to it anymore (and the stupid iOS app has been crashing every 30 seconds for no freakin’ reason) - Facebook team please fix it.
You don’t have to deactivate the account, but please clean up your newsfeed first. Unfollow pages you don’t want and clean up friend list.
Use the good part of Facebook and you will be fine.
I for one cannot wait for the American Facebook user to actually sit down and consider whether they pay their ISP $10 a month to be force fed ads in their time line now throughout all videos and the finally put down the 'free' drug that Facebook has become. Edit: Not just Facebook but social media as a whole.
$10 a month? Perhaps you missed a 0 there... Americans pay a lot more per month to watch ads on the Internet.
Facebook has become almost completely useless to me yet I waste so much time on it every day. No one posts anything on it except like 3 guys who post 10 times a day that I barely know yet find their extremist political posts mind numbingly amusing. The news on there is trash, I much prefer the WSJ and if I want sensationalist things I'll go to Reddit and my tastes are more niche now so I have some forums I visit occa…
Given so much of the video content (at least high 80s percent wise) on Facebook is simply pirated from YouTube and other creators, it seems more than a little unethical for them to start emblazoning them with ads. But, they'll happily sit behind the DMCA Safe Harbor, slowly taking down videos and reaping the ad revenue in the meanwhile without giving any of it back to creators...
It's hard to imagine a less ethical company in silicon valley than Facebook so it's not surprising
Who cares? Only morons use FB. Let them consume video ads.
But if you knew that a majority of the population was simply watching advertisements, wouldn't it annoy you? Facebook has commoditized the social nature of humanity and now they are selling it. I highly doubt Mark would let his daughter freely roam FB.
Given so much of the video content (at least high 80s percent wise) on Facebook is simply pirated from YouTube and other creators, it seems more than a little unethical for them to start emblazoning them with ads. But, they'll happily sit behind the DMCA Safe Harbor, slowly taking down videos and reaping the ad revenue in the meanwhile without giving any of it back to creators...
For others who may think this is not a big deal I recommend searching about Facebook videos and monetization issues on YouTube. It's like a widespread money disease making creators lives miserable trying to stop it.
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It's hard to imagine a less ethical company in silicon valley than Facebook so it's not surprising
Uber?
Who cares? Only morons use FB. Let them consume video ads.
But if you knew that a majority of the population was simply watching advertisements, wouldn't it annoy you? Facebook has commoditized the social nature of humanity and now they are selling it. I highly doubt Mark would let his daughter freely roam FB.