Comment by patrickk

3 days ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_b...

I originally read it as EVIL/UPDATE.

Anyway, Meta, really? Just to have more of our data? For the absolutely pedestrian explicit purpose of providing more information to advertisers?

This is why I don't buy into conspiracy theories. The truth is typically really boring and predictable - evil corporations will evily corporate.

I half wish for a more exciting villain that would give people a noticeable reason to stand up against - not just annoying people with intrusive ads.

  • Meta can figure out the information about users that helps it target ads. That’s one of their moats.

    Giving advertisers demographic information outright would actually weaken Meta’s moat.