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Re:Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spend... by mygo on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:21PM (#19287293)
this is the best way to do it IMO. algorithms aren't as smart as me at everything. they're going to miss some things. even facebook with all their resources still can't figure out an algorithm that actually shows me posts from all the people that I want to see. And honestly it's easy enough for me to go through a list of potentially business-related expenses and say "nope, not business-related".
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Re:Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spend... by p1necone on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:48PM (#19287421)
Facebook does that intentionally, the more you spend scrolling through crap with the occasional thing you actually want to see the more time you'll be looking at advertisements. They don't make money by being more useful, they just make money from showing you ads.

Presumably the same reason for the recent reddit redesign, and snapchat's awful UI changes.

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Re:Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spend... by mygo on Saturday March 02, 2019 @07:52AM (#19289019)
what I mean is that there are some friends that I never see posts from, even though I want to. Ads aside. Facebook will never show me posts from some people that I'm facebook friends with. I could have 500 facebook friends that I want to see posts from, and even though I view thousands of ads I'll only ever see posts from the same 100 people.
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