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my hack is just to not have facebook

• willcipriano 2y ago
  My hack is being just young enough that having a Facebook would make me feel old.
  • gerdesj 2y ago
    You have rather succinctly noted that sodding huge walled off communities come and go, with time. ::FAC3:B00C: is already very old school and largely irrelevant. They just haven't noticed yet. Whither Geocities and Compuserve?
• m1117 2y ago
  But I'm addicted to the feed!
• 39896880 2y ago
  Facebook makes shadow profiles of you anyway
  • somat 2y ago
    Then facebook gets to track my shadow self.
    • scubbo 2y ago
      Why would a person who objects to Facebook tracking them via their actual profile not object to Facebook tracking them via inferences?
      • serf 2y ago
        because the far-parent problem was 'facebook has ads that target me.' an easy way to avoid the problem of seeing ads on facebook is.. to avoid facebook. yes, this doesn't solve the privacy and ad-affiliate network problem -- but that wasn't the stated problem.
        • ryandrake 2y ago
          Yea they can track my shadow profile all they want and I don’t care. I don’t visit them so they aren’t showing me ads.
          • 39896880 2y ago
            They lease your behavior to other advertisers, insurance companies, loan guarantors…
            • gmhafiz 2y ago
              How do they know what my behaviours are if I don't have Facebook?
              • EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
                You don't have, but many sites you visit have a Facebook code hidden in their pages that sends data about any visitor to Facebook. Thus Facebook knows a lot about you even if you don't have an account.
            • bcg361 2y ago
              Source? It's always been my understanding that while smaller players do this, the major ad players - Meta, Google, etc - never do this: Data on everyone is their greatest competitive advantage, and they don't want to give it away!
        • scubbo 2y ago
          Fair point!
      • inferiorhuman 2y ago
        I have a hard time believing that Facebook does a particularly good job with its shadow profiles. They can't even figure out which continent I live on or narrow my age down to more than a couple decades off. For the times I need to wade thru the muck mbasic + adblock means the only ads I see are recommended groups. Those are usually history geeks focused on cities thousands of miles away from anywhere I've been in the past decade.
      • bravetraveler 2y ago
        I'll answer but I don't think you want one/it... They're different. That's why. Simple. One you're giving them information/still seeing ads The other, they're guessing and you're free from the mind rot. Distance surely hurts their accuracy. Can't stop them guessing but you can stop being their authoritative source. You've heard the whole, "we're in charge of our response, not the problem", right?
        • scubbo 2y ago
          That's a great answer, thank you! Yeah, "someone non-consensually has low-accuracy information on me" is experientially different than "someone is using (more-accurate) information on me to serve me ads". The former's still not _great_ (they can still pass that information to other people which could lead to bad experiences), but it's still much better than the latter. Thanks for the clarification!