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My Facebook ads and recommended posts are nonstop superhero poo poo and I do not want to see it. It's so dumb; logging in and scrolling through screens of "Top 10 Most Brutal Comic Book Deaths" and "Most Powerful Characters in the MCU" makes me go on Facebook less and less. I only log in to check in on events and stuff, for the love of god stop showing me fake posters and rumors for Deadpool 3.
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Jul 17, 2023 21:27
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Neorxenawang posted:Facebook has turned into this also recently... My feed is easily 70% ads and "suggested" posts. for faacebook on pc, you can just install facebook purity, which has the added benefit of being able to force your feed to chronological without it resetting at random. On mobile i have no idea
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Jul 17, 2023 21:29
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LifeLynx posted:My Facebook ads and recommended posts are nonstop superhero poo poo and I do not want to see it. It's so dumb; logging in and scrolling through screens of "Top 10 Most Brutal Comic Book Deaths" and "Most Powerful Characters in the MCU" makes me go on Facebook less and less. I only log in to check in on events and stuff, for the love of god stop showing me fake posters and rumors for Deadpool 3. Facebook is irredeemable trash and this is all it shows me too. Mindless crap targeted to keep you scrolling and nothing else, and once you're done scrolling you realize you didn't retain a single piece of information.
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Jul 17, 2023 21:37
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Facebook succeeded in boiling the frog. Now it’s just spattery guts floating in boiling ad and disinformation sludge, with patches of horribly burned people clambered atop semi-solid bits insisting that the water’s fine, Trump is still president, and that the shirts they bought with algorithmically filled-in details were a great gift from their demonrat granddaughters.
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Jul 17, 2023 21:46
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If you're using ublock origin on PC at least it's very easy to add a script line that removes all of the "suggested for you" stuff
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Jul 17, 2023 21:59
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Facebook was already hitting the point where no one under boomer age was voluntarily on it, not surprised it's hit end-stage enshittification by now.
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Jul 18, 2023 08:04
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Good to know that the massive drop in FB quality isn't just happening to me. Over the last 6 months or so the ads and autoplayed videos have become so prevalent and so, so bad. At first I tried hiding the comic book and Joe Rogan-esque meme poo poo, but that just seemed to make it worse. I started get like weird SE Asian or Arab meme posts that are totally incomprehensible to me instead, and now it's autoplaying hosed up videos of violent robberies, people feeding hamsters to snakes, etc. It's such a shame that a lot of the really active niche hobby groups I follow are still all based on FB, because I would have ditched it months ago if they weren't.
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Jul 18, 2023 08:18
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poo poo. I guess I won't try to squelch the comic book stuff then.
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Jul 18, 2023 09:12
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:poo poo. I guess I won't try to squelch the comic book stuff then. I always assumed that FB was pretty strict in its content moderation of videos, but apparently there's a whole swathe of stuff, like animal abuse and crime CCTV videos, that's acceptable. The first time I encountered this was when I was scrolling through my feed late at night and saw a video of someone holding a hamster, which I assumed was some anodyne cute animal video; imagine my surprise when it proceeded a few seconds later to showing that person feeding the live hamster to a giant toad in graphic HD detail.
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Jul 18, 2023 09:23
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facebook's content delivery strategy does seem to be finding any reason, no matter how flimsy, that a person might be interested in a thing and then plastering their feed with anything remotely related. this probably works fine for the big money maker of radicalising people into andrew tate and qanon but for me it just decided one day I was really into pink floyd and that was all I saw for a few weeks. presumably one of my friends is a big floyd-head or I just scrolled past something too slowly once. probably doesn't help that the actual posts from my contacts on there are like, three things per day at this point
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Jul 18, 2023 09:26
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Angepain posted:probably doesn't help that the actual posts from my contacts on there are like, three things per day at this point A quick look now at the main feed gives me: Post from my sister (2 hrs ago) Advert Suggested for you Post from a friend (18 mins ago) Advert Post from group I followed ages ago but haven't looked at for over a year Post from a friend (12 hrs ago) Advert Suggested for you Reels (never once clicked on one) Advert Post from a friend (2 days ago) Post from group I followed ages ago but haven't looked at for over a year Advert Suggested for you Reply from someone I don't know to a friend's post from a few days ago Advert So that's several screens of scrolling for (charitably) five posts of what Facebook was created to show in the first place!
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Jul 18, 2023 10:22
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From the sound of things, Facebook stopped being in the social network business and just transitioned over into being television instead. ... television where you're not allowed to change the channel, even.
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Jul 18, 2023 15:10
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From my personal experience, Facebook is surviving by being the central place for community event postings if you're an adult normie and not terminally online (that's pretty much the only reason I haven't deactivated my account). No one I know is particularly happy to use Facebook, but the network advantage it has by being the most common denominator platform is keeping other options from growing. Facebook Marketplace also seems to still be popular.
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Jul 18, 2023 15:19
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My Facebook feed is mostly friends and groups I'm a member of. I have some ad blockers which might be helping, although ads to slip through. No autoplaying videos, that's for sure.
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Jul 18, 2023 18:42
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I'm in some FB Messenger groups, but I only check actual facebook maybe once a year. I feel bad about the people who sent me a happy birthday message like five months earlier, but then I realize these are people who haven't disabled birthday notifications by 2023, and are writing greetings to people they haven't talked to since high school more than two decades ago, and I have to imagine they must be used to unrequited birthday wishes by now.
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Jul 18, 2023 18:52
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Angepain posted:facebook's content delivery strategy does seem to be finding any reason, no matter how flimsy, that a person might be interested in a thing and then plastering their feed with anything remotely related. I bought a new car for the first time in a decade, and after spending a few months researching and figuring out what car to buy, my Facebook and YouTube is now assuming I'm a huge car guy and feeding me nonstop car posts
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Jul 18, 2023 20:16
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MojoAZ posted:I bought a new car for the first time in a decade, and after spending a few months researching and figuring out what car to buy, my Facebook and YouTube is now assuming I'm a huge car guy and feeding me nonstop car posts "...but ya gently caress ONE goat!!!"
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Jul 19, 2023 02:56
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I’ve apparently done a pretty good job covering up my metaphorical digital trail because my YouTube suggestions are just my subscriptions now with occasional very highly related videos. I never see stuff related to stuff I search for.
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Jul 19, 2023 03:17
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I suspect that facebook treats even scrolling over a post as a read for the purposes of interest analysis, meaning that the user is very rapidly shunted into a feedback loop on however a topic is tagged.
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Jul 19, 2023 03:50
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It's not just in the AI garbage where algorithms are prone to gorging themselves on their own excrement and going insane. Reminds me of the endless scrolling interfaces for streaming services that are made to hide much or how little content they actually have.
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Jul 19, 2023 04:37
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Discendo Vox posted:I suspect that facebook treats even scrolling over a post as a read for the purposes of interest analysis, meaning that the user is very rapidly shunted into a feedback loop on however a topic is tagged. Do you think on phones or tablets that they can track at the level of what one’s eyes are looking at? Edit: I think I remember seeing patent stuff for that posted at some point. No idea when that was. Bar Ran Dun fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Jul 19, 2023 |
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Jul 19, 2023 05:57
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Nitrousoxide posted:I’ve apparently done a pretty good job covering up my metaphorical digital trail because my YouTube suggestions are just my subscriptions now with occasional very highly related videos. I never see stuff related to stuff I search for. I only search for things I want to show up in my recommendations. Otherwise I use incognito. It's all just too fragile. I only see relevant poo poo and it's great.
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Jul 19, 2023 06:01
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Do you think on phones or tablets that they can track at the level of what one’s eyes are looking at? not generally, I think something just coming onscreen would be how it's worked. In practice it may be possible to track mouseover, and more broadly, one could use research to make assumptions about where onscreen someone looks most frequently.
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Jul 19, 2023 07:03
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Do you think on phones or tablets that they can track at the level of what one’s eyes are looking at? The tech definitely exists. You'll see eye tracker stuff in e-sports streams.
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Jul 19, 2023 07:38
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Oh, that- well sure, with camera access, gaze tracking tech exists.
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Jul 19, 2023 07:48
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whydirt posted:From my personal experience, Facebook is surviving by being the central place for community event postings if you're an adult normie and not terminally online (that's pretty much the only reason I haven't deactivated my account). No one I know is particularly happy to use Facebook, but the network advantage it has by being the most common denominator platform is keeping other options from growing. Yeah I basically just use it to organize stuff if it involves a lot of people as the events thing is actually good for that and as you say it's a pretty common thing for everyone to have. Getting to the events page is actually hard these days though. It's actually not even on the first column of things you go to. You need to click on more to get it show up. I mean look at this:  What is half that crap. underneath events it continues:  Seriously what the hell is Ray band stories? did I click on a button "install random poo poo to facebook" or something? What is even happening with the bloated mess that is facebook these days. Social media sites just really love to bloat out until they collapse in on themselves I guess.
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Jul 19, 2023 09:16
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dr_rat posted:Yeah I basically just use it to organize stuff if it involves a lot of people as the events thing is actually good for that and as you say it's a pretty common thing for everyone to have. Getting to the events page is actually hard these days though. It's actually not even on the first column of things you go to. You need to click on more to get it show up. Haha it really is like your nan's internet explorer.
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Jul 19, 2023 09:44
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Nervous posted:The tech definitely exists. You'll see eye tracker stuff in e-sports streams. The tech definitely exists, but social media apps can't rely on having access to a camera pointing at your face, since everything's locked down by permissions systems that request authorization from the user before turning on the camera.
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Jul 19, 2023 15:05
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Ray Ban stories are (I think) instagram stories posted by way of those sunglasses with a camera built in. (Sort of like those ones that Snapchat had a while ago.)
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Jul 19, 2023 19:40
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Facebook's UI has always been poo poo and the biggest poo poo point has always been "how do I get this crap I don't want to see out of my feed?" and you can practically hear it saying "you can't hide that, that's our business model!" Today it's suggested content and their TikTok ripoff, before it was friends trying to get more lives for their lovely Facebook games, before that it was relatives posting garbage that you don't want to see but you don't want to unfriend them.
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Jul 19, 2023 19:44
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For real y'all if you use FB on a PC just click your ublock origin icon, click the gear icon, paste this in there, enjoy your immensely better experiencecode:
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Jul 19, 2023 19:52
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Papercut posted:For real y'all if you use FB on a PC just click your ublock origin icon, click the gear icon, paste this in there, enjoy your immensely better experience Looks like it parses the header for each post on your the phrases "Suggested", "Recommended", "Post You May Like", and "Reels". Then removes those from your feed. The second one removing Reels doesn't seem to be working on my pc, but otherwise the experience is so much better. Too bad it is desktop only.
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Jul 22, 2023 15:21
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Old James posted:Looks like it parses the header for each post on your the phrases "Suggested", "Recommended", "Post You May Like", and "Reels". Then removes those from your feed. It should work on mobile browsers as well.
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Jul 22, 2023 15:46
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Old James posted:Too bad it is desktop only. I have good news for you
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Jul 22, 2023 16:43
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Oh gawd, it's happening. https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1682965644780904449?s=20 He's trying to resurrect his X brand again.
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Jul 23, 2023 06:08
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X marks the spot! 
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Jul 23, 2023 06:13
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Young Freud posted:Oh gawd, it's happening. Stop threatening me with a good time.
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Jul 23, 2023 06:16
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This is the most hilariously stupid poo poo ever. We're watching this idiot disappear up his own rear end in an almost literal sense.
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Jul 23, 2023 08:11
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Alkydere posted:This is the most hilariously stupid poo poo ever. We're watching this idiot disappear up his own rear end in an almost literal sense. If only he was really disappearing.
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Alkydere posted:This is the most hilariously stupid poo poo ever. We're watching this idiot disappear up his own rear end in an almost literal sense.  https://www.extrafabulouscomics.com/_1218
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