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Re:Facebook is cooked by grishka on Saturday February 21, 2026 @08:01AM (#47100427)
> Once Meta identifies you as male, you will get almost exclusively thirst trap posts no matter what you do.

What if you're gay though. They have to be able to detect that somehow too

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Re:Facebook is cooked by Xenoamorphous on Saturday February 21, 2026 @08:39AM (#47100740)
Probably still a relatively small percentage of the total for them to care.
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Re:Facebook is cooked by steve_adams_86 on Saturday February 21, 2026 @12:18PM (#47102685)
My understanding is that it's likely somewhere around 7.5% for men and women. Including bisexual people brings it closer to 10%. That's based on self-reporting, I think. I'm not sure how significant that would be in Meta's world.

Among men this would only be 3 or 4%. Probably not that significant given how coarse the strategy itself is.

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Re:Facebook is cooked by alsetmusic on Saturday February 21, 2026 @01:10PM (#47103149)
Then they'd undoubtedly show you hot guys. I don't know why this wouldn't be the obvious answer.
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