I stopped using mainstream social media in 2019 but my accounts are still active so I can snoop on random people I went to college with and holy shit every time I get on Facebook it’s so much worse on ways I don’t even understand. Most recently I got on to look at something and my feed was completely unrecognizable because it was all AI generated slop from pages I have never heard of and not any updates from people I know. It’s crazy what people will accept if it’s done slowly enough I guess. I legitimately don’t understand why anyone would use Facebook as it exists today. At least when I quit I could at least understand why people used it.
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Epzillon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Happy I got AdNauseam after uBlock Origin. Deleted my facebook a year ago, shit is an AI slopfest built upon the greed and manipulation of every part of the chain. Defcon 31 has a good talk that brings this up. “Disenshittify or die” by Cory Doctrow, cann recommend to watch.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Epzillon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The more time you spend glued to your screen the less you notice slow changes. I assume this is part of why user retention is so important…
18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What’s AdNauseam?
Epzillon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
An extension of uBlock Origin. It does the same thing but also clicks on every ad before it removes it.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
I support the use of AdNauseam. Not sure if there are any more extreme alternatives, I now choose to be actively hostile towards advertising/tracking rather than just passively blocking it.
Epzillon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
My dad has been talking about wanting something like AdNauseam for years, i was very happy when i found it. The extra mile would probably be to expand it with a VPN and constantly spam clicks, clear cache, switch IP and obfuscate data. Now we just wait for someone with enough time to build it…