pickledoyster

>large blocks of IP addresses

This could be at least partially solved by starting legal and cybersec (bulk blocks, flagging SDKs as malware) action against botnets for rent[0], forcing their SDKs out of app stores[1].

0 – https://spur.us/residential-proxies-the-legal-botnet-that-no... 1 – https://datadome.co/bot-management-protection/how-proxy-prov...

kudos for the format and not wasting the reader's time

I would chip in the average Facebook user value for my country if, and only if, Mozilla completely reversed course on ad tech, selling user data, and 'private tracking'. The fact that it acquired Anonym (with its close ties to Facebook) makes it clear that Mozilla would not diversify away from ads, it would just jump from one ad company (Google) to the other (FB).

I would not give a penny to a company that looks to sell me out.

>take a "Cost Accounting" course

do you (or anyone else) have a good course to recommend?

> don't we get that from long-running TV series, audiobooks, visual novels, videogames, manga?

Different media affect and engage us in different ways/modes, and reading is a process that requires a particular set of skills that is different vs watching TV.

Much like listening to music with one's eyes closed vs reading the notation – one might get a sense of the composer's intent, structure, theme, emotion, etc. from both, but there are major qualitative differences in the two media.

Lewis Black had this golden reaction to his audience applauding a smartphone: "Don't you ever, ever applaud an inanimate object again. I believe that's why they have that section about the golden calf."

https://youtu.be/g0YKW0NLP64?feature=shared&t=565

yup, many mobile app developers do this (inject any SDK that'd pay them) too. Doesn't need to be open source, though

Ad view counts and random comments praising the ad are just part of the ad.

> your ancestors impulsively tasting mushrooms

There are other animals humans can observe instead of impulsively risking their lives.

some of us do but the adoption is too low for any meaningful network effect

> it's easy to stop using Facebook. It's a lot harder to stop using Google or Amazon.

Not in my country, where Facebook owns basically the entire messaging space through Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. I have been able to switch my default search engine, email provider, mobile OS, office suite, etc. from Google no problem, but the network effect has been too strong to get most of my friends out of Meta's ad network. It doesn't help that most groups and basically all events are organized through there.

The only real messaging alternative with significant adoption at this point seems to be Telegram, which I cannot support for numerous reasons, primarily for the founder selling the entire user base of vkontakte to an authoritarian state.

The event organizing space in my country is all Facebook events, it begs some proper disruption. I'm no fan of Apple's walled garden, because I believe public events should be fully accessible to the public, but it's hard to understate how bad Facebook events are if you do not use its apps and don't have an account. I'm talking about things like missing a crucial time/location change from the organizer because Facebook does not show non-logged in users any event posts. So, while I hope that Apple fails at walling off events, I do hope some proper disruption happens in the space.

The recent Matrix movie is certainly bad, but I strongly believe that a single change would have been cool: in the scenes where it's revealed to the viewer that Neo looks like a different man[1], he should look like Cypher. Someone famous, important, struggling to reintegrate, joylessly chewing on some steak, etc. ...

1. https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2021/09/08/46-1631115261242.p...

then, after the damage is done, they throw some scraps to the plebs and the comment section is full of thank yous to the monopolist

Thanks, but I don't really see how these articles support the claim that their ad network is more efficient. As you note, the first article has a single anecdata point about it actually being 10-15% worse, while the second one basically says 'trust me bro'. Also of note from the second article is the fact that the ad spend would actually increase.

Of course, if businesses are gullible enough to believe facebook when it fudges up some brand lift metrics without having a real impact on conversions, that's their choice. Trusting facebook to report any analytics is how you take your business behind the barn and help it pivot to video. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_to_video

> Meta) are not directly impacted by AI even if the cost of training these AI models becomes cheaper and $0 free models get better.

cheaper spam and impersonation engines (LLMs) have a direct impact on the ad network that is strategically downsizing its moderation efforts

> By many accounts, Meta's ad targeting is even better now than before ATT.

Could you please provide any sources for this claim?

there are some public instances that I use to check a handful of profiles that have yet to migrate elsewhere

...np, I guess.

To be honest, I'm actually disappointed in myself for helping fb retain a user

>And finally: Ordering. Non-chronological ordering makes no sense, because everything is random (probably not, somehow maximizes engagement for users very different from me, I guess). So I can’t even scroll for the stuff I want to see.

Does https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr not work anymore? It should surface the chronological feed without reels and other recommended slop.

I use Thunderbird on a Ubuntu-based distro for a handful of inboxes, including a gmail account. No complaints.

Honestly, the entire blog feels that way: referencing the same old tropes and personalities in a slightly novel context. A sort of a comfort read for the web2.0 nostalgia crowd.

I guess this approach worked, since it allowed the author to go on writing full time in Denmark (HCoL), which is an achievement these days.

> The Next Generation Internet (NGI) is a European Commission (EC) initiative that aims to shape the development and evolution of the Internet into an Internet of Trust. An Internet that responds to people’s fundamental needs, including trust, security, and inclusion, while reflecting the values and the norms all citizens enjoy in Europe.

If an air purifier review site is publishing research on their search traffic and affiliate site rings, I feel it's safe to say that their specialty is in seo, not air purifiers.

I was hoping to find an /s at the end.

This is really off topic, but you are confusing real-time strategy with turn-based strategy.

Yes. It's not the regulation but the misguided implementation that's to blame.

Sites and cookie banner plugins could just accept DNT signals from browsers and no productivity would be lost.

Does ctrl+v+shift not work anymore?

"The biggest study of ‘greedflation’ yet looked at 1,300 corporations to find many of them were lying to you about inflation" – https://fortune.com/europe/2023/12/08/greedflation-study/

Still astounds me anything from proton is recommended years after 'their' vpn was made by tesonet/nordvpn[0] which also owns a botnet/data-mining company[1]

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18609655 [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29285988