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the entire selling point of online ads, which is giving a chance to smaller players a chance at the game.

Aunt Mae's cookie shop will never be able to compete with Pepsi for airtime

They mean via an explicit permission dialog. Not something hidden in the TOS/Privacy policy

They saw their livelihoods evaporating, their financial security being siphoned away. They worked their asses off for bosses who then built their automated replacements. It was a callous betrayal, and their response was to destroy the technology which enabled that betrayal.

Just like old media.

You may need smarter friends, just saying. Also, facebook does have niche groups for such topics.

Facebook isn't in China right now.

Checkout workplace.com

The "engagement" that you're talking about is causing other people to leave, so I don't know how that works in FB's advantage here.

If they really wanted to maximize "engagement" they would actually hide all of the political posts and rage inducing comments and show nothing but cat pictures.

These types of jobs come with the best health insurance.

I'd be surprised if most people at microsoft paid more than $100 a year in health expenses.

Yikes... I mean it's not that hard to look at the first uploaded date. Unfortunately they don't really have any pressure to do better in this area not like anyone can go to another app store.

it's probably more about the spam instead of the sexual content

Do you think facebook is the only place that is getting your data?

I wonder if we needed a "chromium" version of firefox that's been stripped of all of the bloatware