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I guess im talking about something else. You’re talking about being shown ads that are related to your interests which is fine with me.

I’m talking about Facebook radicalizing people and manipulating their viewpoints and selling them on things they otherwise would have never wanted in a million years if they hadn’t used Facebook.

I’m not talking “Facebook showed me a cool pen and I like to collect fountain pens so I bought it”, no issues there. I’m talking “Facebook radicalized and manipulated me and now I am buying extremist books and courses that I otherwise never would have”.

The latter is why I disable targeted ads. Because it just an order of magnitude beyond “showing me relevant products”



If you can be manipulated by ads to be a terrorist I guess you have greater problems than tracking. In this case I'd say it's better for the public if these people are keep getting tracked.


It's not about him. Society at large has a problem if any people at all are able to be manipulated like this. And clearly, some are.


Not sure where you grabbed terrorism from…


"radicalizing people and manipulating their viewpoints"

it doesn't matter though




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