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Re: Fookin' GAFM, again
colak wrote #327590:
Facebook publicly complains that Apple’s new IOS privacy settings will prevent them from helping small businesses, as it will no longer be able to collect/commodify the users’ data without their consent.
www.theverge.com/2020/12/16/22178068/facebook-apple-newspaper-ads-ios-privacy-changes
The changes are still on track for a January 2021 release. Developers (games dev companies – not small fish) are drowning in crocodile tears and looking at all ways to work around the blocking. Financial Times reposted on ArsTechnica.
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Re: Fookin' GAFM, again
The Small Technology Foundation – Aral Balkan and Laura Kalbag – have embarked on a weekly podcast on small tech starting with Small is Beautiful. A new episode discussing their projects Better Blocker and site.js coming up in the next hour…
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Re: Fookin' GAFM, again
their.tube is a site that makes the echo chambers created by YouTube visible.
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Re: Fookin' GAFM, again
colak wrote #328452:
their.tube is a site that makes the echo chambers created by YouTube visible.
Nice find!
That issue (the great YT suggestions AI god) need much highlighting but will probably fall on death ears about everywhere if my experience is worth anything :–(
(and their icons / robots look cool)
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Re: Fookin' GAFM, again
phiw13 wrote #328456:
Nice find!
That issue (the great YT suggestions AI god) need much highlighting but will probably fall on death ears about everywhere if my experience is worth anything :–(
(and their icons / robots look cool)
I’m a heretic:) I still use google, but via startpage.com. I’ve set my heavily customised FF browser to delete all cookies except my sites’ logins, at the end of each session. I use another browser for my social media, and webmail needs. I know that the IP and mac address do not change, but at the same time, my add and cookie blockers are making life more difficult for them.
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Re: Fookin' GAFM, again
The Big Tech Detective for Chrome and Firefox shows just how bad and sad the situation is.
(Which might be why Gemini has a small chance at being relevant.)
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Destry wrote #329069:
The Big Tech Detective for Chrome and Firefox shows just how bad and sad the situation is.
(Which might be why Gemini has a small chance at being relevant.)
it’s worse that we thought…
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Re: Fookin' GAFM, again
Here’s an excerpt from an article by Aral Balkan
Here’s wishing you all a world full of freedom sponsored by Google, privacy sponsored by Facebook, and democracy sponsored by Palantir.
And, if for some wild reason that’s not the world you want to live in, then maybe it’s time for some organisations to take a fucking stand. Start calling surveillance capitalists “surveillance capitalists.” Say no to their money. And stop legitimising these bastards. ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/
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#100 2021-02-28 17:18:29
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#101 2021-02-28 19:28:20
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#102 2021-05-31 19:32:38
Re: Fookin' GAFM, again
Whistleblowers show how Facebook is censoring debate about jabs
The article is also a good overview of wider censorship. It mentions FB shadow banning which is hard to pin down and prove so I’ll just say that Mastodon may be just as bad or worse.
I have observed the (non-)response to balanced, fact-checked posts (I mean personally researched not fake-fact-checks); the total lack of any health, wellness, peace and harmony sites (what kind of alternative do people want?); the shortage of sensible discussion; the people who follow you but never comment (why?); having to hide anything non-mainstream behind content warnings; the preponderance of non-mainstream instances that conflate seemingly opposing points of view, such as the gun lobby with anti-abortion, or anti-abortion with anti-vax, or anti-vax and the right to carry guns at any time etc (so even if you agree with just one post, you are automatically labelled as agreeing with opposing views too).
I think there are too many strange things and too many mind games for Mastodon not to be a breeding ground or learning place for Big Tech infiltrators and influencers. The bottom line is that you just do not know who you are dealing with. Social media?
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