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Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads (futurism.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Iheartcheese@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Astertheprince@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

I'm so glad I quit Facebook long ago and also started using uBlock Origin.

[–] TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

even a scathing rant about surveillance capitalism becomes fodder for the machine, as you can clearly see with the ads on this page.

Ads? I can see no ads...

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Centralized social media is an advertisement platform that targets advertisements according to information & conduct users feed the platform, and some of those users are teenagers?

They're advertising cosmetics to teenagers unlike ever before in the history of teen-centric media?

[–] Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (10 children)

And tiktok is supposed to be our enemy?

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 14 points 1 month ago

Por que no los dos?

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago

TikTok absolutely does the same kind of thing and worse. Engagement is all that matters. Doesn't matter what kind, what about, or how that engagement is generated.

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[–] adm@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Let's not pretend that we don't have this type of thing happen to us. Maybe not beauty products but any time I slip outside of my ad blockers I'm made accurately aware that they're always listening. It's not a coincidence the ads you see, the TikToks, and the Facebook ads. It's just used for adds right now but it should scare the shit out of people.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The book is very good. Reading it now. The writer starts off with a great story about a shark attack.

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