One quote that jumps out: “It’s difficult to say with certainty what the causes are, but Facebook has made no secret about its intention to deprioritize news on its platform and give greater precedence to video content, which by nature results in less clickthrough traffic."
It does feel like my Facebook “algorithm” is constantly trying to push “shorts” on me…annoying little videos clearly meant to imitate, I assume, Youtube Shorts, Tiktok, Instagram short videos, etc…
Broadly speaking, with all that’s happening in the social media world, it feels like some sort of reckoning or change is coming, but where exactly things are heading is hard to say…
- They want to keep you in their walled garden.
- They will show you what can make them the most money as possible.
- You are the product. What data can they extract from you as they are making money from you.
Corporations only care about what will drive their share price higher.
I honestly am not sure why we had become so tolerant of advertisements in our face.
Perhaps we had reasoned it was just the way these companies make money, a necessary evil.
Its getting to the point though, where the more I see a company advertise and put out meaningless and ambiguous statements the less I trust that company.
Isn’t there some old adage about don’t trust what someone tells you about themselves, rather than the way they act?
I wouldn’t mind as much if half the websites out there didn’t have the trashiest ads I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve got an ad blocker on my desktop but not on my phone. Amazing that supposedly “professional” businesses are filling their sites with sleazy ads that look like they’ll lead you directly to installing a bunch of viruses.
The version I’ve always heard is “when somebody tells you who they are, believe 'em”.
Aggressive advertising isn’t anything new, remember when a 30 minute TV slot was 8 minutes of advertising? Or when every site in the 00s had at least 3 banners of malware ads with sound that played obnoxiously loud on load?
