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They're Looting The Internet (www.wheresyoured.at)
submitted 8 months ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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This is the state of the modern internet — ultra-profitable platforms outright abdicating any responsibility toward the customer, offering not a "service" or a "portal," but cramming as many ways to interrupt the user and push them into doing things that make the company money. The greatest lie in tech is that Facebook and Instagram are for "catching up with your friends," because that's no longer what they do. These platforms are now pathways for the nebulous concept of "content discovery," a barely-personalized entertainment network that occasionally drizzles people or things you choose to see on top of sponsored content and groups that a relational database has decided are "good for you."

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[-] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 8 points 8 months ago

sponsored content and groups that a relational database has decided are "good for you."

I don’t think they could possibly care less what’s good for you.

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