I only want to use it for facebook marketplace, but jeez i didnt know they were taking it this far with this crap…

  • gustofwind@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Marketplace can be good for local deals and I can’t fault anyone for taking advantage of that

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      23 days ago

      Yeah I use it extensively for this.

      If it asked me to verify and I couldn’t use someone else’s face it would be a tough decision.

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        23 days ago

        Surprisingly, Craigslist is rather active in my area. It’s still not as active as marketplace, but it makes it possible to get by without having an FB account.

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          23 days ago

          It’s just not really a thing here in Australia. I just checked and in my state (about 2 million people) there’s a dozen ads or so across all categories.

          A distant second to facebook marketplace is gumtree. I just had a look to see how popular that is and their site just seems to be down. Shits fucked really.

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        23 days ago

        how are you guys curving their invasive dark patterns? They are dead set on forcing you into their bullshit to use marketplace.