this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
117 points (99.2% liked)

Technology

59446 readers
3550 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Norway: Stop collecting user data to sell and using it to serve adds!

FB: OK. You can now be add free for 10 euros a month.

Norway: Are you still collecting and selling user data with that plan?

FB: ...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They will collect and use (and not directly sell) to create training sets for neural nets, and then they can sell access to those neural nets for the purposes of ad targeting.

You’re not a user. You’re just another brick in the wall.