Let’s not pretend that we don’t have this type of thing happen to us. Maybe not beauty products but any time I slip outside of my ad blockers I’m made accurately aware that they’re always listening. It’s not a coincidence the ads you see, the TikToks, and the Facebook ads. It’s just used for adds right now but it should scare the shit out of people.
Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
Submitted 10 months ago by Iheartcheese@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://futurism.com/facebook-beauty-targeted-ads
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adm@lemm.ee 10 months ago
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Sometimes you can’t help but acknowledge the cleverness of evil.
MTK@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If any of the big companies were turned into a human, they would all be Epstein
hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Added to idcaboutprivacy (which is open source). If there are any other similar links, feel free to add them or send them my way.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Remember: someone went out of their way and put effort into programming this.
rusticus@lemm.ee 10 months ago
An entire team.
A study published in a medical journal showed that Facebook (primarily) along with other social media was responsible for the rise in teenage suicide in girls. Let that sink in.
ebolapie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I 100% believe that Facebook and friends are causing this trend but it’s important to note that the linked study does not conclude that causation is present:
There is an independent association between problematic use of social media/internet and suicide attempts in young people. However, the direction of causality, if any, remains unclear. Further evaluation through longitudinal studies is needed.
nectar45@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Gross
MHSJenkins@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Why do we as a species hate teenage girls so much?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
We don’t. You’re just more squeamish about seeing them run over with the cold unfeeling tires of capitalism than other groups.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s mot that we hate teenage girls (and women) so much. It’s just money. Soulless, apathetic money making.
A teenager is in a vulnerable state. Some more than others. But self esteem, self worth, and existentialism are things that a teenager as, at the very least, a brush with.
An emotionally vulnerable person is more open to suggestion. Religion does this a lot. Advertising is no different.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Capitalism can feed by double the negative emotions on them easily.
Tire@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
We don’t hate them, it’s just that capitalism has found them to be an easy and vulnerable target for manipulation.
gradual@lemmings.world 10 months ago
I agree.
I feel like the powers that b have people working overtime to ensure that most Western women feel like they need to consume to be accepted by their peers.
What’s particularly sad is it’s the exact opposite. That culture of consumption also comes with an aura of exclusivity. Most of these girls are miserable because they’ve been conditioned to consume as much as possible while thinking anyone who consumes less isn’t good enough for them.
It’s really good for putting them to work, not so good for making them or the people around them happy.
slashasdf@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Dystopian as fuck
vordalack@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Based and marketing pilled
Gronk@aussie.zone 10 months ago
4chan is back online just so you know
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just evil but you’ll never see anyone punished for it.
RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This kind of shit should not be tolerated.
kandoh@reddthat.com 10 months ago
The book os very good. Reading it now. The writer starts off with a great stoty about a shark attack.
RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Did he choose electrocution over the shark attack?
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Centralized social media is an advertisement platform that targets advertisements according to information & conduct users feed the platform, and some of those users are teenagers?
They’re advertising to teenagers unlike ever before in the history of teen-centric media?
raynethackery@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Advertising targeted towards minors needs to be banned.
gradual@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Advertising should be illegal.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As with basically everything bad in the US, it’s another reminder that Reagan was a human shitstain.
Your classic 80s cartoons were toy commercials. Candy, toys, cereals started being marketed directly to children.
Zink@programming.dev 10 months ago
And I genuinely loved all that stuff as a kid, usually liking the ad (e.g., TMNT cartoon) more than the toys (e.g., TMNT action figures).
As your typical Lemmy user who loves Linux and hates advertisements, I sometimes have to remind myself about that when my son is watching today’s dumb kid shows. Teaching him about the systems in play rather than isolating him from it has been working well IMO.
The bonus is that he doesn’t watch full-on advertisements and commercial breaks like we were forced to in the 80s when it was live TV or no TV.
deathbird@mander.xyz 10 months ago
All ads suck, but ads based on user rather than content go too far.
veggibles@lemmy.wtf 10 months ago
Advertising
targeted towards minorsneeds to be banned.RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Advertising itself isn’t a bad thing.
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 10 months ago
lol, Jesus. It is like what a screen writer would come up with for a movie that contained a terrible company run by terrible people doing stuff so outlandishly terrible everyone watching would think “the absurdity of the terrible is how you know it is made up”.
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
All what they do is just so disgusting…
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
can’t believe a social network started by incels in college to rate girls sexually would do something like this.
Jhex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Facebook… now even more toxic than previously known!
Therobohour@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s 0% surprising. FB had always been about making girls feel bad. It’s in its sorce code
andros_rex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Facebook started as a Hot or Not website. Fucking creepy.
YouTube also started because the founders wanted to see the Janet Jackson nipple slip. (Which fuck them for that.)
Therobohour@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ya FB is,was and will forever be bad for society and woman especially
I mean,do you really think janet jackson didn’t want people to see?
Therobohour@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ya FB is,was and will forever be bad for society and woman especially
I mean,do you really think jackson didn’t want people to see
k0e3@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
TIL teen girls still used Facebook.
guywithoutaname@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Instagram too according to the article.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I get Instagram (lots of creative types there), Facebook is a bit surprising though.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Goddam I had to read that headline 3 times before I understood the implication!
That is outright disgusting, and such practices ought to be outlawed.
Or as Trump would say, very cool and very legal way to make money.Epzillon@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
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.
Epzillon@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
What’s AdNauseam?
Epzillon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
An extension of uBlock Origin. It does the same thing but also clicks on every ad before it removes it.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 10 months 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 10 months 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…
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
That’s some cartoon villain level shit jfc
Astertheprince@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I’m so glad I quit Facebook long ago and also started using uBlock Origin.
hopesdead@startrek.website 10 months ago
This type of advertising isn’t new. There is that famous (although the claims from the father have been questioned) New York Times article written by Charles Duhigg in 2012. A father of a teenage girl in Minnesota got upset for receiving coupons from Target for infant care related products. As the story goes, he later learned his daughter was in fact pregnant. It turns out Target was using some predictive algorithm to identify would-be mothers and straight up sending them coupons for infant care products. It seems ever since this article was published that they stopped doing this in such a direct manner. Again, there have people who questioned the validity of the claims for this specific story, but Target did confirm they were doing this.
El_Scapacabra@lemm.ee 10 months ago
My doctor’s office (allegedly) handed my info to a plastic surgery clinic so they could send me a “happy 40th birthday, now fix your sagging bullshit!”-email the literal day I turned 40.
Needless to say that put a damper on things.
People have been doing evil shit for money since the invention of money. These days it’s just automated.
RedPostItNote@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Uh that’s new doctor time
nomy@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I’d call my former Dr’s office and flip my shit. Them giving out your info may have been a HIPAA violation. You should really follow up and harass the fuck out of them.
fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 10 months ago
Don’t normalize this
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I think I read somewhere that that was apocryphal, but it strikes me as 100% plausible. It doesn’t even have to be a matter of “write a system that detects pregnant women via their purchase history and send them coupons for maternity stuff” I think Amazon’s Frequently Bought Together feature could get it done. The same algorithm that suggests a tacklebox and some lures when you have a fishing pole in your shopping cart might recommend diapers and formula to those who buy maternity pants.
Grimtuck@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Be aware that the companies would have paid Facebook handsomely to identify users in this way. The world we live in has a sickness with greed for money at its heart.
20cello@lemmy.world 10 months ago
SaladKing@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Fucking hell. That is vile!
admin@lemmy.today 10 months ago
How did they come up with this idea? Did the algorithm suggest this pattern, or did someone in marketing come up with it?
Talonflame@lemmy.cafe 10 months ago
Another reason I’ll never use Facebook. It’s been a hellsite for a long time