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[–] 93 points 8 months ago

Without scams, spam, slop, bots and ads, facebook would be rather empty.

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  • [–] 53 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Not surprising at all.

    US will remain a chauvinistic plutocracy until Zuckerberg and all his goons are caught and put in ball and chains.

    And that's just one case, there is also Meta's enablement of the Rohingya genocide, which is arguably a far more serious crime than systematic enablement of mass scale fraud.

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago

    You dont say. Its their entire business model and majority of their revenue and income.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    This appears to be the whole article:

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I deleted my Facebook profile last year after 18 years and never looked back. It's a totally different platform than what I signed up for almost two decades ago. Absolutely zero value for me now.

    I'm so glad Valve is releasing a VR headset so I don't need to have anything to do with a trash company like Meta.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Meta actively doesn’t care about AI fake profiles or scammy shit.

    Even TikTok cares more and actually take down shit if you report it and it’s supposed to be the evil propaganda machine 😆

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    Crazy how evil people find other evil people to marry and start families with.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    As if there's not already more than enough reasons to always have an ad blocker... If you absolutely still need to use Facebook and Instagramto keep in touch with people, there's browser extensions and patched apps that still block the ads.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago*

    If you are on Android, Revanced has several ad-free versions for popular applications like YouTube and spotify. I paid 30 bucks for a lifetime subscription to AdGuard back in 2019 and the experience has been extraordinary.

    It's always a jarring experience to use someone else's phone. Ads take up at least a third of the screen at any given time now. I'm not swimming in that shit.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Harder to find? When I accidentally go to Facebook I exclusively get scam ads (I disabled ads personalization, though)

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Won't someone think of the lizard people?!

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    FB is also a sea of AI videos that are being passed off as real.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I deleted my account on Facebook last year I feel good never go back on there ever again.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Of course, it and AI slop means more fucking money.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Capitalists gonna capitalist.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I'd love to delete/suspend my Facebook but unfortunately it is the only conctact I have for many ex work colleagues and some friends.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    are they really your friends though if they dont want to engage with you over any other way?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    Honestly, many friends who live in other towns I stay in touch with using messanger so theoretically I could disable Facebook and keep messenger but Facebook is more for former work colleagues that I occasionally say hi to. It would have been a lot easier if i could just have WhatsApp with timeline and marketplace.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    i only ever used FB for game related tokens, like for RS which offer tokens, or keys for doing "fake scam offers". othr than that i never use it. only recently UBLOCK to get around thier login popups, so i can download new RA2 maps.

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    [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    making them harder to find makes them more effective

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