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CaptainSarcastic posted:Yes, you caught me, I am constantly doing unsecured searches on "flight attendant with comically oversized circus tits." 
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Advertisers want to make money through scams or selling products. They get potential customers by buying advertisements on Facebook. It is in Facebook's interest to make money. Therefore, they wish to 1. sell as much ad space as possible and 2. make their ads as targeted as possible. Point 1 is self-explanatory. Point 2 makes sense because well-targeted ads mean higher conversion rates, which means advertisers make more money and are more inclined to use Facebook's advertising platform in the future. Facebook figured out you're into physically improbable women. Therefore they serve you ads with AI-generated pictures of physically improbable women. They have to do this because if they don't, there will be a tiny chance some other platform appears that will serve you pictures of physically improbable women. Then that platform will make money, which runs counter to point 1. This is uncontroversial and entirely inevitable in any capitalist society with internet access.
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Jan 14, 2024 10:19
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Do you post about Dune? The military girls appear to be saturated with Melange.
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Jan 14, 2024 11:12
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Facebook got worse because you left, op. You abandoned it. The Social Network is crying out for your contributions to keep it on the straight and narrow. Well actually not narrow, but definitely straight, no doubt about that.
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Jan 14, 2024 12:11
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not sure what’s garbage about pics of hot babes, seems to be an improvement to me
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Jan 14, 2024 12:26
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I deleted my fb in 2014. It sucked already by then. I recently made a new one maybe a year ago only to sell things locally I don't need anymore, because fb marketplace is still the go to, and it sucks so bad. I have no posts only junk to sell.
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Jan 14, 2024 12:41
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for some reason I het a shitload of trad west poo poo on my feed.
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Jan 14, 2024 12:47
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Facebook can be okay-ish if you exclusively follow other mentally ill poo poo posters / groups. But even then, it's not great
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Jan 14, 2024 13:15
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Facebook has decided on a very niche genre for me, which is reasonably attractive women doing electrical work. I'm gonna be honest, if I'm not busy, I click the links.
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Jan 14, 2024 14:19
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Slugworth posted:Facebook has decided on a very niche genre for me, which is reasonably attractive women doing electrical work. I'm gonna be honest, if I'm not busy, I click the links. There's a sweet spot you can hit where you just kinda passively observe the thirst trap video loops and once in a while click tasteful ones so that your algo starts being like "alright buddy, I see what you're going for" and sends you lots of these, women splitting logs in flexy thermals, world athletic games clips, badass lady Judoka throwing people around, and other more "fun/cool and also a bit horny" content. You can never escape the deluge fully only keep it under control, and any misclicks or gawking will poison the algorithm too far.
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Jan 14, 2024 14:36
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 "Hi ya'll remember that site that no-one in their right mind goes on that sucks, well, I went on it, and it sucked." Although, I gotta admit; I too, am curious, as its been a couple of years since I went on there as well. on my backup fake af profile.
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Jan 14, 2024 14:40
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Here's a couple examples of the weird fetishy stuff that I don't feel the need to spoiler, at least. No, on second thought I'm going to spoiler the flight attendant one that's first: A 2-3 star Air Force general and two Marines in the Fremen Defense Forces. Nice ... can you post more?
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Jan 14, 2024 15:11
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Just join ‘A group where we all pretend to be boomers’. You’ll see the same content, but at least it’s posted by people who know it’s garbage. And if they share from someone being sincere, it’s fun to see that person getting dogpiled in the original post.
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Jan 14, 2024 15:42
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CaptainSarcastic posted:You have a more optimistic view of humanity than I do, apparently.
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Jan 14, 2024 15:46
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Grey Cat posted:I deleted my fb in 2014. It sucked already by then.  although FB marketplace is its own bullshit. I'm moving so I need it to sell furniture and poo poo, but I am actively anticipating deleting that mofo and never ever ever dealing with it again
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Jan 14, 2024 16:01
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i haven't logged into facebook since 2014 and i had to confirm i'd seen the rules for a fishing tournament recently. irritatingly, they do this by posting on a facebook page. so i set out trying to either remember what my old account was or try to make a new one. they immediately blocked me when i tried just using a normal gmail and putting real info in saying that i was a real person violating facebook's tos for having multiple accounts or something. i tried recovering my account after this and because i tried making an account first i was unable to do like, normal account recovery and would have to reach out to facebook to do this. i do not care enough to talk to facebook to do this. i ended up making a new mail on proton and putting in fake info other than my name and that got past facebook's account checker bullshit well enough for me to post that i had, indeed, read the rules for the fishing tournament
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Jan 14, 2024 16:13
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Vampire Panties posted:
Yeah and it's full of bots and poo poo too. We tried getting rid of some stuff yesterday and had a hit, "cool can i pick it up" "yeah" then just a message or two that made absolutley zero sense in or out of context. Sucks that it's the end all be all of local selling currently.
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Jan 14, 2024 16:19
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Facebook tends to offer me egg and egg related products
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Jan 14, 2024 16:22
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I check a local neighborhood group on FB which has been super worthwhile during outages and one or two times there’s been a shooting. Also got a 2000 dollar sewing machine off an older lady in the neighborhood on there for 150 bucks. Facebook thinks I wanna see like “Avril Lavigne looked like this and now she looks like this” type content. The only people I know who use it habitually are my parents and their peers, and a few weirdos in my age group.
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Jan 14, 2024 16:23
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Grey Cat posted:Yeah and it's full of bots and poo poo too.  its a cesspool of bots and scams. Inexpensive furniture and home goods is mostly outside of their purview, but posting any sort of electronics over 500$ is an instant barrage of "Hey I'm interested in your item. Can I call you?" messages.  they want your phone number so they can steal your 2FA
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Jan 14, 2024 16:23
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So what pixel blocking tech do you use?? Facebook has defaulted me to Boomer but the most I get are like pictures of Chinese guys making food in stalls or fixing pipes hyper efficiently and then yeah lots of shots of actresses on runways
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Jan 14, 2024 16:27
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Vampire Panties posted:
Good thing I absolutely hate phonecalls and avoid them at all costs. Yeah msg me on fb or don't bother at all.
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Jan 14, 2024 16:28
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Facebook is unironically useful for hobby groups. I collect fossil shark teeth, and there are active groups where you can post alongside paleontologists and what not. All the old forums for the hobby are dead.
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Jan 14, 2024 18:03
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Grey Cat posted:Good thing I absolutely hate phonecalls and avoid them at all costs. Yeah msg me on fb or don't bother at all. I have sent you many unanswered DMs
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Jan 14, 2024 18:06
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Yeah, it's that kind of creepiness that led to running the amount of privacy/security stuff that I do. I know it's not 100%, but I limit how much of my information goes out as best I can. Even SA lives in its own container in Firefox. And my phones all have the DuckDuckGo tracker blocker running, and it is frightening how many things that clamps down on. i dont do any of this stuff, and as a result all my ads are for things like music software and instruments and equipment etc. - stuff i actually buy - instead of weird AI thirst traps. i'm not sure exactly what information i should be hiding and from who because you are going to see ads either way, why not some relevant ones?
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Jan 14, 2024 18:11
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kntfkr posted:Anyone who still has facebook should feel ashamed.
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Grey Cat posted:Yeah and it's full of bots and poo poo too.
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Jan 14, 2024 18:20
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Love that 'coordination during a shooting' is a positive, multiple times a decade use case for social media Mine's just one post a week of someone's baby and 100 recommended clickbait articles.
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Jan 14, 2024 18:28
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Spinz posted:Offer Up is busy where I live. I buy and sell stuff on there regularly idk what the colorado go to is but it seems fb. Different region to region. In Utah it was KSL or nothing at all and drat did I get a lot of porn messages on my phone using that garbage.
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Jan 14, 2024 18:29
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buglord posted:This kind of reminds me of how weird YouTube looks when you're not logged in. I signed out of youtube a few weeks ago when they started messing with adblockers and the feed had like 4X the amount of right wing/scam content. In a couple seconds I found out James O'Keefe, Alex Jones and Russell Brand are still out there doing whatever they want
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Jan 14, 2024 18:33
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Facebook thinks I live in Cornwall, England (I do not) and enjoy badly photoshopped Lego scams (I do not). I block all tracking and have no personal information on the account - it's used for Oculus stuff only, and the other 'friends' on there also only use it for Oculus and don't have personal details either. Even the names are false.
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Jan 14, 2024 18:42
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all I ever see when I use Facebook are roller coaster videos and nostalgia posts about towns I grew up in where half the comments are people getting the location wrong and arguing over it and the other half are people simply saying "I remember"
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Jan 14, 2024 18:49
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Spinz posted:Offer Up is busy where I live. I buy and sell stuff on there regularly  Offer Up is also fairly busy where I live, but somehow its user base is the worst. One thing craigslist did right (unintentionally) is there was a tiny barrier of entry; OfferUp encourages people to make super lovely lowball offersEDIT I literally only go on Facebook to do marketplace stuff. I'm in maybe 20 groups, stuff like "SoCal Buy Sell Trade Everything" with 100k members. My feed is product ads, ads to join groups based on the physical location of the other groups I'm a member of (i.e. "You Grew Up in San Diego In The 50s 60s 70s 80s" whatever), and posts from the aforementioned sales groups.. which are ads. Snow Crash eat your heart out Vampire Panties fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Jan 14, 2024 |
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Jan 14, 2024 19:16
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Pheeeew 😮💨 just got back from Facebook so I can report my findings:: it sucks.
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Jan 14, 2024 19:21
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Strategic Tea posted:Love that 'coordination during a shooting' is a positive, multiple times a decade use case for social media Twice in like two years actually. My neighborhood is very quiet so it’s unusual. We had one crazy guy get his hands on a gun during an episode and shoot a random guy on a bike. The second was a SOVCIT black Israelite that barricaded himself in his house and made national news.
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Jan 14, 2024 19:23
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As far as online P2P classifieds go north of the 49th parallel, the most widely used one to offload any e. Kijiji means 'village' in Swahili. Nyan Bread fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Jan 14, 2024 |
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Jan 14, 2024 19:28
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Tbc those aren’t ads, those are suggested posts, right? Facebook has gotten extremely aggressive with suggested posts in the feed lately. If you click the three dots, you can block the source, or there’s often an option for “show less posts like this,” which will clean up your feed for maybe a month. My suggested posts are from weaving groups. I don’t weave, but I knit, and Facebook either can’t tell the difference or assumes there’s a lot of overlap. It’s still annoying
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Jan 14, 2024 19:30
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i like nice words
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Zuckerberg generated that content specifically for you OP based on gigabytes of your personal data history.
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I prefer chatting to my pals/sisters over the computer instead of my phone because Messenger is extremely poo poo on my phone, so I have a facebook tab open all day. My feed is about 50% old The Onion articles (it was the last thing I Liked, and they just repost old links all day, kinda annoying but occasionally funny), 30% memes, mostly Sopranos and Simpsons, 10% links or pictures shared by my 4 or 5 friends who still share to feed (though nobody in the world has posted an actual personal update in about a decade, I figure) and, lately, 10% AI-generated pictures of liminal spaces and japanese-looking alleys. No weird thirsty or horny stuff here. But you're probably just "blank slate, male" to the Algorithm.
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