Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B

Re:Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B by FearlessNebula on Friday February 04, 2022 @12:51PM (#30210114)

I guess im talking about something else. You’re talking about being shown ads that are related to your interests which is fine with me.

I’m talking about Facebook radicalizing people and manipulating their viewpoints and selling them on things they otherwise would have never wanted in a million years if they hadn’t used Facebook.

I’m not talking “Facebook showed me a cool pen and I like to collect fountain pens so I bought it”, no issues there. I’m talking “Facebook radicalized and manipulated me and now I am buying extremist books and courses that I otherwise never would have”.

The latter is why I disable targeted ads. Because it just an order of magnitude beyond “showing me relevant products”

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Re:Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B by tiborsaas on Friday February 04, 2022 @12:59PM (#30210233)

If you can be manipulated by ads to be a terrorist I guess you have greater problems than tracking. In this case I'd say it's better for the public if these people are keep getting tracked.

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Re:Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B by nonameiguess on Friday February 04, 2022 @02:13PM (#30211490)

It's not about him. Society at large has a problem if any people at all are able to be manipulated like this. And clearly, some are.

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Re:Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B by FearlessNebula on Friday February 04, 2022 @01:32PM (#30210952)

Not sure where you grabbed terrorism from…

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Re:Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B by tiborsaas on Friday February 04, 2022 @01:56PM (#30211284)

"radicalizing people and manipulating their viewpoints"

it doesn't matter though

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