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A comment on Threads: Meta’s Newest Social App. Parent comment

Re:Threads: Meta’s Newest Social App by aaroninsf on Thursday September 14, 2023 @01:33PM (#37512090)
The right word is surveillance.

Ubiquitous surveillance is what pays most of the VerySmart gathered here.

Advertising is just the part of the market we can talk about in stand ups.

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Re:Threads: Meta’s Newest Social App by babypuncher on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:29PM (#37512840)
Advertising is the reason for the surveilance. The whole reason Facebook gathers all this data on its users is to drive their ad platform.
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Re:Threads: Meta’s Newest Social App by vGPU on Saturday September 16, 2023 @08:02PM (#37540105)
Knowledge is power.

Do you really think that the usefulness of knowledge is limited to trying to sell you stuff?

If so, you’ve never thought about it very deeply.

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