Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Core App

Re:Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Cor... by tfha on Thursday July 25, 2019 @03:17PM (#20528494)

I'm starting to struggle with this on Twitter. Got frustrated enough to uninstall it a few weeks ago, still haven't put it back (though I continue to be tempted).

So many promoted tweets and the uncanny feeling that my feed is being shaped in strange and unwanted ways.

The straw that broke the camel's back was the banner where twitter declared that it was doing more tracking and targeting so that I would be served better ads, both on AND off of twitter. "Great!", "Learn more" were the two buttons.

I want my mindshare and my thought direction to be in my own control. The feeds are stealing my self control over my own thoughts. I hate it.

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Re:Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Cor... by alkonaut on Thursday July 25, 2019 @05:31PM (#20529980)

If I didn’t have a good third party client (no ads, no sponsored tweets, all chronoligical) I would have left Twitter long ago. I don’t get how people can stand using the official apps.

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