Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenue at Twitter

Re:Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenu... by Animats on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:53AM (#23255860)

Basic Twitter might cost about as much to run as Craigslist. Do users really want all the add on junk? Or is it mostly there to benefit advertisers?

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Re:Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenu... by marcinzm on Thursday May 21, 2020 @09:02AM (#23257825)

Craigslist doesn't need to personalize what it shows for every user which makes it cheap to run. Twitter does. I want my timeline based on those I follow and not your timeline.

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Re:Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenu... by kungato on Thursday May 21, 2020 @09:37AM (#23258134)

How complex and demanding do you expect "personalize what I want to see" to be? I remember when i used facebook how I hated when they removed the chronological timeline showing everything Im following. Personally all these "personalization" features are anti features to me. I always though they need this fuzziness to charge for placement of ads and adlike stuff

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Re:Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenu... by marcinzm on Thursday May 21, 2020 @09:43AM (#23258214)

Your chronological timeline IS a personalization. Doing that at scale adds a lot of complexity over something like Craigslist which doesn't need it.

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