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b_ocu··on “35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent”
>the entire selling point of online ads, which is giving a chance to smaller players a chance at the game.

Aunt Mae's cookie shop will never be able to compete with Pepsi for airtime

b_ocu··on What “The Social Dilemma” Gets Wrong [pdf]
They mean via an explicit permission dialog. Not something hidden in the TOS/Privacy policy
b_ocu··on The Social Dilemma
>They saw their livelihoods evaporating, their financial security being siphoned away. They worked their asses off for bosses who then built their automated replacements. It was a callous betrayal, and their response was to destroy the technology which enabled that betrayal.

Just like old media.

b_ocu··on The Social Dilemma
You may need smarter friends, just saying. Also, facebook does have niche groups for such topics.
b_ocu··on Ethnic violence in Ethiopia has been supercharged by hate speech on Facebook
Facebook isn't in China right now.
b_ocu··on Facebook Campus
Checkout workplace.com
b_ocu··on Facebook Campus
The "engagement" that you're talking about is causing other people to leave, so I don't know how that works in FB's advantage here.

If they really wanted to maximize "engagement" they would actually hide all of the political posts and rage inducing comments and show nothing but cat pictures.

b_ocu··on Shared salary spreadsheet reveals Microsoft employee earnings for a second year
These types of jobs come with the best health insurance.

I'd be surprised if most people at microsoft paid more than $100 a year in health expenses.

b_ocu··on Apple terminated developer account for unstated fraud after minor app update
Yikes... I mean it's not that hard to look at the first uploaded date. Unfortunately they don't really have any pressure to do better in this area not like anyone can go to another app store.
b_ocu··on Facebook has blocked Dreamwidth
it's probably more about the spam instead of the sexual content
b_ocu··on Who’s sharing my data, and who the hell is Dave M. Rogenmoser?
Do you think facebook is the only place that is getting your data?
b_ocu··on Firefox push[ing] irrelevant notifications
I wonder if we needed a "chromium" version of firefox that's been stripped of all of the bloatware