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Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨GertrudGoethe@feddit.org⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://sherwood.news/tech/rather-than-fully-cracking-down-on-scam-ads-meta-worked-to-make-them-harder/

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  • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Without scams, spam, slop, bots and ads, facebook would be rather empty.

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  • Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨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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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      He’ll be in his Hawaii bunker.

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    • devolution@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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      • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨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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    • Killer@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • C1pher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨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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  • Auster@thebrainbin.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This appears to be the whole article:

    Attachment: media.thebrainbin.org ↗
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    • TWeaK@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This would be the Reuters article your image is referring to: reuters.com/…/meta-created-playbook-fend-off-pres…

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  • pycorax@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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    • OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you are on Android, Revanced has several ad-free versions for popular applications like YouTube and spotify. I pay 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.

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    • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can you recommend any such patched app for Facebook?

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      • pycorax@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Don’t really use Facebook anymore so I can’t help you there I’m afraid.

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  • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 😆

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      TIKTOK will be evil once ELLISON controls the US BRANCH OF IT.

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    FB is also a sea of AI videos that are being passed off as real.

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    • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And old people commenting without realizing it’s AI

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      • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Fortunately a good number of comments point out that it is AI crap. For some reason the majority of these videos come from Pakistan and the middle east.

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  • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Crazy how evil people find other evil people to marry and start families with.

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  • NoodlePoint@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Of course, it and AI slop means more fucking money.

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  • rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Won’t someone think of the lizard people?!

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ANDROID, zuckerborg acts more like a machine than human.

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  • Minimac@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      you dropped these …

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  • petrjanda@gonzo.markets ⁨22⁩ ⁨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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    • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Same, it is mainly a messaging platform for me for people who I otherwise can’t reach.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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  • theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Capitalists gonna capitalist.

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  • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    making them harder to find makes them more effective

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  • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    what people get even more angry about is the suggestion that they delete their facebook account

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  • notreallyhere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    duh.

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