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- shapesalad-4
- A screen filled with underinflated truck tires. Looks just as dated as the Apple iOS interface.utopian
- I never understood the obsession with dark mode.CyBrainX
- Keep the "old" version when you're asked, this new version looks dumb af on a big screengrafician
- Have they've used this opportunity to change all the page/event/profile image sizes again?webazoot
- can they go darker mode to where it disappears completely?Krassy
- Light mode looks like Twittermort_
- QBN still has no dark mode after a decade of begging. Thanks.NBQ00
- a decade of begging? pleasemonospaced
- eewwdbloc
- Morning_star4
I've posted this in the IDW thread too. I think it may belong here though.
- The only interesting thing I learnt was that Google uses those recaptcha street photos to get us to teach their AI to spot road features.Hayzilla
- mugwart3
anything else other than FB?
heard about this: https://joindiaspora.com
- Bennn3
''Facebook shared private user messages with Netflix and Spotify''
https://www.theguardian.com/tech…
''Facebook granted major companies far more exceptions to its privacy policies than previously known, making user data available through loopholes to companies including Amazon, Microsoft and Sony.
The loopholes, reported by the New York Times, suggest a company that was prepared to bend its own rules to keep valuable partners onside.
Facebook gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read users’ private messages; it gave Microsoft, Sony and Amazon the ability to obtain email addresses of their users’ friends as late as 2017; and it gave device manufacturers such as Apple the ability to build special features that plugged into the social network.
The arrangements bypassed Facebook’s typical privacy protections, making it harder for users to determine where and how their data was being shared by using the tools Facebook had made available for that purpose.''
- Bennn1
I hate Facebook more and more everyday, I'm slowly migrating over Twitter and Instagram.
Before someone tells me, I know Instagram is own by FB... I just prefer it over FB.
And on Twitter we can build lists, wich is just great to focus on a specific kind of accounts we want to read at a specific time.
And both instagram and twitter have pretty basic interface and system opposed to Facebook who has become a huge monster full of tentacles that goes in so many directions.
I've made a huge cleanup of all the pages i follows on FB to try to clean up that timeline a bit. Still sucks.
- and twitter still have a chronological timeline, no stupid algorythmBennn
- I dumped everything but Reddit a few months ago. 0% miss any of it.section_014
- also way less nonsense in the twitter timeline coming from uncle Tom and aunt Suzan or Boby from the jobBennn
- u can build focus lists on FB... just saying.horton
- Focus lists??Bennn
- You used to be able to in FB. They killed anyway to organize on there, making it a horrible cluster fuck of shittyformed
- algorithms that pump out the same crap to you over and over. (I had dozens of lists saved, then the wiped it all out I've got one mess of 1000 different pages)formed
- whatthefunk3
- hahaprophetone
- lol
all those dumb old expired fuckers questions were hilariousGuyFawkes
- monNom2
When I was a kid, the Stasis secret police in east Germany were held up as the ultimate example of a repressive state. They kept a detailed dossier on every citizen so they could target them precisely whenever they might want.
Today, we have the same thing, but instead of a government, we have large corporations like advertising platforms and credit agencies who aren't accountable to us at all. They hold our information, but we aren't asked to use it, nor allowed to see what they know about us. They own us, in a way.
Since the Berlin Wall fell, we've had 30 years of technological advancement and automation increasing the potential for harm from the sorts of things the Stasis did, and we use it all supposedly for targeting advertisments. I don't know about you, but the quality and targeting of ads I see is terrible, and doesn't appear targeted in the slightest. The claimed benefit doesn't appear to exist, and it is clear there is potential for serious abuse on a massive scale. Something needs to change to safeguard people from the negative consequences of these datasets.
Our medical information is privileged and protected. Our homes and property are considered sacred and not open to investigation without a court order. Why should the other private aspects of our lives be available to a random company? (and private should mean our connections and conversations, even when they take place through some platform on the internet).
I think we all deserve to be in control of our data, and to require affirmative consent to use it, or share it, even in an anonymized state. (deanonymizing data is trivially easy given a handful of data points). This is going to hurt some businesses, for certain. But the businesses it hurts are ugly businesses to begin with. They prey on people's ignorance and strip them of their agency.
This problem is only going to get worse. We ought to do something about it now before it becomes unfixable, or turns against us in a way we can't fight.
/rant
- It's not just about advertising. That's the immediate, obvious thin end of the wedge. it's what's built on those foundations that should concern us all.detritus
- Sorry, sounds like I thought you were ignorant of what I just said - I'm sure you know! I meant "in reaction to the common complaint against FB"detritus
- Totally. Advertising sounds so neutral, but the very same mechanism with malevolent intent could make for a scary weapon.monNom
- Agree and it also shows how ignorant the general public is with sharing all of this too. Why put EVERYTHING about yourself on social and then wonder when robotswhatthefunk
- connect the dots and steal your shit.whatthefunk
- chukkaphob2
- because everyone knows that when you're under oath its totally impossible to lieBennn
- He wasnt because this wasnt about any sort of crime. It was about their unknowing of how their platform was used during the election.CygnusZero4
- Linking Breitbart? Really?face_melter
- Gardener2
number of hours I have been banned from FB
for posting a link to one of my cheeky mixesthis one.
- you get a 24 hour ban for music and racists and idiots never get banned.capn_ron
- Why for the cover art? First few minutes are dope. People show pics of ingrown hairs, ripped up finger nails and broken blooded noses and this little nip slip..fooler
- gets banned?fooler
- maybe for the orgasm sounds? Someone of your feed has to report you don't they?fooler
- nope not just reporting now fooler, AI baby.fadein11
- cannonball19785
I deleted my facebook permanently like five or six years ago and have only had FOMO like once or twice.
- sted2
- MrT4
Fuck Facebook.
- chukkaphob3
- http://www.businessi…imbecile
- which leads to...
http://www.last.fm/m…imbecile - whoa! good investigative work, @imbecilechukkaphob
- ben982
I don't scroll Facebook often, i just did and i swear 90% of the things in my feed are pushed content and ads
- https://media.tenor.…pango
- It’s called a business, look it up!nb
- neverscared1
Europe faces Facebook blackout
Ireland’s data authority informs its EU counterparts that it will block the platform from sending user data to the US.Europeans risk seeing social media services Facebook and Instagram shut down this summer, as Ireland's privacy regulator doubled down on its order to stop the firm's data flows to the United States.
The Irish Data Protection Commission on Thursday informed its counterparts in Europe that it will block Facebook-owner Meta from sending user data from Europe to the U.S. The Irish regulator's draft decision cracks down on Meta's last legal resort to transfer large chunks of data to the U.S., after years of fierce court battles between the U.S. tech giant and European privacy activists.
- neverscared1
- "buy digital clothes" LOL moronsgrafician
- can be kool too... not zucks of course.neverscared
- nightmarish picturecannonball1978