News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on What Should Be Done About Social Media?. Parent comment

Re:What Should Be Done About Social Media? by blhack on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:54PM (#25120110)
Make a secondary market for algorithms and split part of the revenue with twitter. I'd love that.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What Should Be Done About Social Media? by asciident on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:07PM (#25120175)
So all your twitter data and interactions like clicks and time spent will be sent to whoever gets you to install their algorithm? I can see why Cambridge Analytica seemed like a good idea to some people now...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What Should Be Done About Social Media? by blhack on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:24AM (#25120833)
Almost all of that stuff is public data which can already be scraped.
[ Parent | on HN ]