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by Tade0 33 days ago
I originally read it as EVIL/UPDATE.

Anyway, Meta, really? Just to have more of our data? For the absolutely pedestrian explicit purpose of providing more information to advertisers?

This is why I don't buy into conspiracy theories. The truth is typically really boring and predictable - evil corporations will evily corporate.

I half wish for a more exciting villain that would give people a noticeable reason to stand up against - not just annoying people with intrusive ads.

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Meta can figure out the information about users that helps it target ads. That’s one of their moats.

Giving advertisers demographic information outright would actually weaken Meta’s moat.