• Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

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

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    8 hours ago

    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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      3 hours ago

      Valve has had a vr headset for a while now, they just have a new one coming out.

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    7 hours ago

    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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      19 minutes ago

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

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      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.

  • Pycorax@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    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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      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.

  • Minimac@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

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

  • Rekall Incorporated@piefed.social
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    20 hours ago

    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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      7 hours ago

      FACEBOOK has been shoving right wing content to its user for at least a decade or more. why would they stop, and its a big revenue source, plus AI is helping doing that. this is REDDITS FUTURE TOO.

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      18 hours ago

      Fuck that. Zuckerberg and his cronies, plus their families a d anyone even remotely related to them or anyone who shares even 1/10th of their thought processes need the Romanov treatment.

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        13 hours ago

        Leave the families and “related” people alone. What the fuck you psycho.

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    19 hours ago

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

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    20 hours ago

    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 😆