If something is good enough to do what you want you have no real motivation to change. People posting here are far more concerned about privacy than most people based on how much people seem to voluntarily share online anyway.

If people are going to talk about the details of their divorce in a tiktok video I doubt they care much that someone is tracking what products they looked at on amazon.

Profits for me, fines for thee.

FB is hitting the issue the “growth at any cost” business philosophy hits, they’ve run out of subscribers. Like any system or organism(s) they hit the resource wall, in this case people. There really aren’t more people to sign up, they’ve pretty much squeezed what they can from advertisers. Now they are left with hairbrained schemes to push out into unrelated areas at the cost of accumulating debt. Buying up other businesses has a very mixed track record.

Wall St hates stable, steady, companies. They want endless growth when it ultimately isn’t possible. Without expansion the only way to grow profits is to cut costs. Shareholders and boards demand more. You lay off people, you cut benefits, you make the service poorer quality, cram in more junk ads, more scammers and fraud due to a lack of human monitoring, no customer service for aggrieved users, profits go up for a moment from the cuts but people start to leave so you cut more. The MBAs take the reigns, disconnected from the founders and no loyalty to the business. Execs get their bonuses for each cut and layoff and flee the sinking ship. Hedge funds profit off of the falling stock as they short it. Ads become click bait, toe fungus and ear wax ads. Down it goes…

Oh it also owns WhatsApp, one of the best messaging platforms for scammers. FB’s reels feature is mostly AI generated scammy crap. I’ve noticed a dramatic upsurge in blatantly fraudulent accounts on FB recently. I report them all but I doubt anything is done. I have never received any feedback.

Republican playbook.

Too bad Zuckerberg will walk off stinking rich with his Hawaii bunker.

The Fyre Festival Fone.

You look at the sales numbers for the dumbest crap and it isn’t hard to believe.

Normally I feel sorry for people who get scammed but in this case shitty people getting scammed by the scammer they inflicted on the rest of us don’t get my sympathy.

Endlessly asking AI what to do will cause people to lose the ability to think analytically.

The idiot doesn’t fall far from the president.

I have a lion in the house and it has never been hit by a meteor therefore lions prevent meteor impacts.

$240 million to the lawyers

I’m not taking the old laptop into the bathroom.

Now just get AI pollsters and AI readers and leave us alone.

Based on google searches I assume everyone who owns one of these will need a 2nd phone?

You think even 5% of the pop knows what DNS is?

I hope the next president authorizes surrounding mar-a-lago with wind generators. Make them extra loud.

So it is in the best interest of our national security to be more dependent on oil, as recently demonstrated?

More people = more competition for resources.