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DRINK ME posted:Same image meme? this reminds me of a feature on the duckduckgo browser app, the tracker blocker. like goddamn does every app try to data mine a bunch of every drat metric it can.
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PhazonLink posted:this reminds me of a feature on the duckduckgo browser app, the tracker blocker. Data mining is literally the only way the Internet actually makes money
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Jul 4, 2023 17:04
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You are product. Accept it or live wild and free.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:16
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havent done the math on it in several years, but last time I did, facebook was making ~$300 per NA user
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Jul 4, 2023 17:17
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PhazonLink posted:this reminds me of a feature on the duckduckgo browser app, the tracker blocker. ~100% of them do and in increasingly sophisticated ways. apps have way more freedom to do so effectively than the web, where it is relatively more restrictive but can still totally be done (and is)
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Jul 4, 2023 17:21
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Twitter could survive if Mosk shut the gently caress up and let people who have a clue take a crack at the controls instead of just letting him randomly push buttons and turn knobs. They have enough of a user base that inertia alone could get them through this if those users were even a little convinced that there is an adult in the room turning this poo poo around, but alas, "shut the gently caress up" is not a feature found on this model of Musk.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:34
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Twitter could survive if Mosk shut the gently caress up and let people who have a clue take a crack at the controls instead of just letting him randomly push buttons and turn knobs. They have enough of a user base that inertia alone could get them through this if those users were even a little convinced that there is an adult in the room turning this poo poo around, but alas, "shut the gently caress up" is not a feature found on this model of Musk.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:34
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So true it had to be said twice.
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it could maybe be saved if he reverted every single change made since taking over. even then they weren't a super profitable company (in the eyes of capitalism of course its not enough to be profitable, you must be growing profits... forever) though and struggled to get to where they were through ad revenue. of course that is never coming back now.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:36
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PhazonLink posted:this reminds me of a feature on the duckduckgo browser app, the tracker blocker. I think these privacy labels come from a good place but are misleading. If I install an adblocker it’ll give me a big warning message about how the adblocker needs access to my browsing data and what have you. At first glance it sounds horrible but if you think about it the adblocker needs to have access to the websites your visiting and the html content the website is showing you in order to do its job.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:39
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They would need free rein to ban people, and he could never allow that.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:39
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Why would the fash narcissist dumbfuck buy Twitter to keep it as it is?
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PhazonLink posted:this reminds me of a feature on the duckduckgo browser app, the tracker blocker. https://labs.rs/en/facebook-algorithmic-factory-immaterial-labour-and-data-harvesting/ Parts of this may be a little outdated (2016) but it presents visualisations of how Facebook gathers data.
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Boris Galerkin posted:I think these privacy labels come from a good place but are misleading. If I install an adblocker it’ll give me a big warning message about how the adblocker needs access to my browsing data and what have you. At first glance it sounds horrible but if you think about it the adblocker needs to have access to the websites your visiting and the html content the website is showing you in order to do its job. I knew a guy who wrote a big gotcha rant on Facebook about pokemon go spying on people because he "dug deep into its permissions" (aka checked the install pop up) and saw it requested location data. You know, that app whose entire gimmick was controlling landmarks in your city using pokemon you caught walking around? Apparantly it was a surprise that it'd use your location to do any of that.
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https://www.independent.ie/business...1927220337.htmlhttps://www.independent.ie/business...1927220337.html posted:Meta will not launch its new Twitter rival, Threads, in Ireland or the EU for the foreseeable future. So much for Threads immediately taking over from Twitter.
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Underwhelmed posted:Twitter could survive if Mosk shut the gently caress up and let people who have a clue take a crack at the controls instead of just letting him randomly push buttons and turn knobs. I mean, is this actually true? Twitter needs to make a LOT more revenue to service its new debt. I think, even ignoring the ego-driven/ideological aspect of it all, most of his actions from firing everyone to Twitter Blue are primarily driven by trying desperately to squeeze blood from the stone that is Twitter. Not recognizing that the old management had, as good capitalists, already been doing that. I think he was just kinda hosed from the moment he bought the website, the only question is how long it takes for the music to stop and whether he can duck the blame.
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Jul 4, 2023 18:06
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This should accelerate the development of my anger amplifier app
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SimonChris posted:https://www.independent.ie/business...1927220337.html Oof, it must be really nosy - the EU is thankfully pretty cautious about data protection, but FB, Insta, TikTok, Twitter are all accessible here. Threads presumably wants access to even more. also "Ireland or the EU" is poor writing. Ireland is the EU, as much as any other member country is. It's the Indo, so I don't expect much but they could at least have written "Ireland, or the rest of the EU"
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Jul 4, 2023 18:18
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ninja4x8 posted:I think he was just kinda hosed from the moment he bought the website Even an idiot like Musk realised he was hosed when he bought it. He was desperate to back out for a reason. Presumably Twitter has a finance team making budgets and forecasts (unless this was one of the teams fired). There is no way there is a credible operating/financial plan that gives them a path to profitability and paying the debt that isn’t reliant on believing multiple miracles.
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lol that the EU is going to say no to Threads on privacy buy sit on it's hands about Twitter's hate speech
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kazil posted:lol that the EU is going to say no to Threads on privacy buy sit on it's hands about Twitter's hate speech It's magnitudes easier to prevent a new thing from launching than it is to ban something your citizens are already using.
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kazil posted:lol that the EU is going to say no to Threads on privacy buy sit on it's hands about Twitter's hate speech Really annoys the gently caress out of me.
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Rod Hoofhearted posted:It's magnitudes easier to prevent a new thing from launching than it is to ban something your citizens are already using.
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Jul 4, 2023 18:34
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yeah all these tech company products are basically just workarounds for existing regulations that werent strict enough in the first place. threads will be no different. theyll 100% find a way to launch it there before too long
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I didn’t realize Facebook owned threads but of course it does.
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Jul 4, 2023 18:42
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Time to go back to calling them "topics" here
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Matt Levine continues his run of being the writer who best keeps on top of Musk’s bullshittery:quote:Well, look, if I were the newly hired chief executive officer of a social media company, and if the directors and shareholders who brought me in as CEO had told me that my main mission was to turn around the company’s precarious financial situation by improving our position with advertisers, and if I spent my first few weeks reassuring advertisers and rebuilding relationships and talking up our site’s unique audience and powerful engagement, and then one day my head of software engineering came to me and said “hey boss, too many people were too engaged with too many posts, so I had to limit everyone’s ability to view posts on our site, just FYI,” I would … probably … fire ... him? https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-07-03/insider-trading-is-better-from-home
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Dabir posted:Time to go back to calling them "topics" here can't wait to read the PYF Threads thread
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https://twitter.com/TwitterBusiness...%5Es1_&ref_url= Everything's going great.
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he's gone back to the bots and spammers well so many times
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lol writing that like it was some undercover sting operation or something instead of poo poo breaking and them scrambling to come up with excuses "we let it break on purpose!"
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E the Shaggy posted:https://twitter.com/TwitterBusiness...%5Es1_&ref_url= Lmao it's been broken for almost everyone for 4 days This fuckin idiot
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  things are going great at twitter.com
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Ahhh, so she's a dead eyed true believer as well Good, good
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Please, please let Community Notes flag that explanation as bullshit.
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Hang on just a minute, didn't old Twitter have dedicated teams and tools to deal with bad-faith actors and bots, and then some, as-yet unidentified person fired the teams and broke the tools? Linda, you gotta find that guy!
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TulliusCicero posted:Ahhh, so she's a dead eyed true believer as well She's probably doing it for the money. Too bad Elon's not known for paying anyone.
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TulliusCicero posted:Ahhh, so she's a dead eyed true believer as well Either a true believer or, more likely, a run-of-the-mill craven corporate CEO.
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priznat posted:Matt Levine continues his run of being the writer who best keeps on top of Musk’s bullshittery: Can’t fire the Chief Technology Officer when he owns the company and is almost singularly your Board of Directors.  The only thing in this for Linda is she gets CEO on her CV, which wouldn’t have happened otherwise. Maybe that gets her another CEO gig later, maybe not.
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Really want him to break embeds so we can be done with it. Post screenshots of tweets in threads, done.
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