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Meta will use your activity on other websites to personalize your feeds (www.theverge.com)
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I bet most ppl here do not use Meta products. But some may have to for w/e reason. Or you may know ppl who do. Also in the bigger world, it sitll has billions of users, 2.1B every day. This is Meta improving your experience unless you know how to opt out.

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit writing that.

Meta is planning to use the data shared by other businesses to personalize your feed and its AI responses. In a blog post on Tuesday, Meta explains that it already uses your off-platform activity, like the games you play or your purchases on other websites, to serve you ads. But now it’s expanding the scope of the content it personalizes across Facebook and Instagram.

For example, Meta says if you bought a tent online recently, you might see camping-related videos in your Reels feed. “We aren’t collecting any new data as part of this update,” the blog post says. “This is about using information that businesses already send to us to further improve your experience.”

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It's unprovable that revoking consent does anything. I like how they frame it too:

“We aren’t collecting any new data as part of this update,” the blog post says. “This is about using information that businesses already send to us to further improve your experience.”

What am I doing wrong? Why aren't businesses just gifting me cash? Businesses just funnel data to Facebook for free which Facebook uses for profitable ventures? Jeez. Facebook's revenue is in the billions. Boy are those businesses being fleeced! just sending free data to Facebook. Imagine if users were spending money on mobile-computers, electricity and data-connections to send data to Facebook for free too! Everyone must be chumps!

That unknowable consent revocation is pretty important. Australia is mulling over law that forces social-media companies to disable algorithmic feeds. Unless you have agents embedded in those companies it's impossible to discern whether or not your feed has not been modified by an 'algorithm'. This looks like Facebook trying to get ahead of these sort of implications: "Look you have a toggle! Toggle it! No further questions! You've turned it off; you pressed the toggle! What more do you want from us?! We'll meddle in democracies to ensure you win! Let's be friends!"

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