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by akomtu 1776 days ago
"Tailor ads to users" is such a newspeak. Only two industries call their consumers users: advertisers and drug dealers. So it's fair to compare FB with a broker between drug dealers (advertisers) and drug users (or just users). The users don't really want drugs, but they've become addicts and can't stop themselves. The broker's caring about its users privacy is cute. Apple's and Google's recent stance on privacy is basically protecting the territory from a competing broker (FB).