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Re:Facebook's Adam Mosseri on Why You'll See Less Video, Mor... by rhizome on Monday January 15, 2018 @12:38PM (#16151995)
Why don't they just give us the ability to customize what we want to run on our feed?

It has to be the same for everybody; they have to maintain a consistent UX because it's harder to sell random reach to advertisers. Remember that you're not Facebook's customer, so this is a move to keep eyeballs from leaving.

Take away the tools that can be used for political manipulation and Facebook starts looking a lot more like Snap/IG/TWTR/some new thing.

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Re:Facebook's Adam Mosseri on Why You'll See Less Video, Mor... by nradov on Monday January 15, 2018 @01:25PM (#16152348)
There's nothing random about Facebook advertising sales. Regardless of how your feed is customized, they know exactly who you are and what you're interested in.
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Re:Facebook's Adam Mosseri on Why You'll See Less Video, Mor... by ocodia on Monday January 15, 2018 @01:01PM (#16152167)
"...because it's harder to sell random reach to advertisers. Remember that you're not Facebook's customer, so this is a move to keep eyeballs from leaving."

Exactly.

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Re:Facebook's Adam Mosseri on Why You'll See Less Video, Mor... by tjoff on Monday January 15, 2018 @01:16PM (#16152285)
Random reach? Consistent UX?

The UX is the same, just the content is different (just as it is today, I don't get the same feed as you).

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