• Twinklebreeze @lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Aren’t they more successful than ever? Sure anyone with half a brain avoids them, but everyone’s Grandma has an account now. Still a net positive.

    • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      The article is talking about killing it from a product usefulness-perspective, not a monkey making-perspective.

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      5 months ago

      And they are serving lots of ads under the radar and shaping their tastes by intermixing the ads seamlessly with entertainment to bypass our advertisement “antibodies”. Sometimes I find some of them saying things and having interests I’ve never known they had only to find their feed randomly peppered with these interlopers.