I'm curious. When I go to FB, exactly how are they making money off of me? I don't see any advertising at all. All the posts are from conservative family and friends. Do they get off by looking at my photos of flowers or posts of the best memes I see on GAW?
I use FB to keep up with friends and relatives across the country. I don't have it hooked up to anything else and use it only on my old desktop computer.
Your metadata is worth a small fortune. They don't care about the picture of flowers, but more the fact that you LIKE flowers. They can build a map of your behaviour and everything you like or dislike which makes you PREDICTABLE.
Then there's me, who's random as fuck and doesn't make any sense... I mess with their "algorithm" by searching for irrelevant shit, and having conversations with myself out loud about irrelevant shit... as well as using fake accounts and fake email addresses. You seriously have to work hard to fuck it all up for them, otherwise you're a literal gold mine of information.
Internet says that FB gets its revenue from ads. If I don't see ads, how do they get any income from me? I don't spend much time there, but if I did, they still aren't getting any money from me.
I'm curious. When I go to FB, exactly how are they making money off of me? I don't see any advertising at all. All the posts are from conservative family and friends. Do they get off by looking at my photos of flowers or posts of the best memes I see on GAW?
I use FB to keep up with friends and relatives across the country. I don't have it hooked up to anything else and use it only on my old desktop computer.
Your metadata is worth a small fortune. They don't care about the picture of flowers, but more the fact that you LIKE flowers. They can build a map of your behaviour and everything you like or dislike which makes you PREDICTABLE.
Then there's me, who's random as fuck and doesn't make any sense... I mess with their "algorithm" by searching for irrelevant shit, and having conversations with myself out loud about irrelevant shit... as well as using fake accounts and fake email addresses. You seriously have to work hard to fuck it all up for them, otherwise you're a literal gold mine of information.
But everyone likes flowers. That's like saying I like to breathe.
I am far from predictable.
I don't like flowers. If you think for one second they can't predict you based on your habits then you're gravely mistaken.
Internet says that FB gets its revenue from ads. If I don't see ads, how do they get any income from me? I don't spend much time there, but if I did, they still aren't getting any money from me.