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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by TeMPOraL on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:03PM (#19226906)
That would indeed be best and has been the number one complaint about Facebook UX since time immemorial. It would also end one of the most annoying issues on FB's timeline - "I just saw an interesting post, but the timeline randomly refreshed itself and now it's gone".

The model they currently use serves two goals: to extort money from fanpages, and to hook users up by intermittent reinforcement.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by pbhjpbhj on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:41PM (#19227255)
Oh yes, very occasionally it's been an ad, or at least mass media output - even when I recall who posted it it's hard to find.

They probably already record every item displayed on screen (and how long for, and whether my cursor hovered it, etc.) so a list of items I saw (on any device) in the chronological order I saw them should just be a simple db lookup away.

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