• dev_null@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      It’s the reverse. Non tech people believe the snake oil, tech people know this is snake oil.

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      2 months ago

      But before that, when it was not acknowledged by social media, it was more like ’ you’re paranoid. And you think you’re that important that they listen to you? Common, get back to reality ’

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        2 months ago

        I feel like we’ve been gaslighted so bad about this that we were even denying each other’s reality.

        I knew they had to be doing this so I turned off all mic permissions. One day it pissed me off so much I started keeping my phone off completely unless I needed to use it.

        The only good thing that came out of it was I learned about ad blockers. Fine, listen to me since I can’t fucking stop you(keeping phone off was inconvenient), but it’s futile now and you wasted money since I won’t see your stupid fucking ads anyway now.

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          I knew they had to be doing this so I turned off all mic permissions. One day it pissed me off so much I started keeping my phone off completely unless I needed to use it

          It might be an easy to just stop using Facebook really.

          I’ve had enough time to work out which of my relatives are racist, so I don’t really need it anymore.

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            2 months ago

            I don’t have fb or the youtube app and haven’t for years… so I’m not sure what was doing it. I have ublock origin now, so if it’s still happening I wouldn’t know.

            Honestly the thought of them pouring that much money into r&d and launching that spyware just to have us plebs block the end result(ads) does feel kinda good at least.