Those businesses give no flying fucks about signals you're angry; they only care about money. So unless you use the Clippy avatars to mobilise people and to hurt those businesses' revenues, it'll do nothing.

(For YouTube, this means to stop or at least reduce platform usage. After all its revenue comes from ads.)

Where's that mobilisation? *cricket noises*

[–] weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

I didn't because I don't use my YouTube account anymore, I only logged in with PipePipe so that I can watch age restricted videos.

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Anyone remember blackout for gaza? It was performative then for a much more important cause with much more public support.

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

In reference to the subject on Rossman's screenshot, that is an 8 year old scandal that was, AFAIK, never proven. What was proven, was an 11 year old report on emotional manipulation by then Facebook

[–] Tm12@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This was surfaced in Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book.

The social media company likewise tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies, "so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment," according to Wynn-Williams. Other examples of Facebook's ad lechery are said to include the targeting of young mothers based on their emotional state, as well as emotional indexes mapped to racial groups, like a "Hispanic and African American Feeling Fantastic Over-index."

Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

When it comes to things like: Facebook/Meta or Israel, every bad rumor tends to turn out to be true.

[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the first time I'm hearing about it. Why should I do it?

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

in my understanding: to create a feeling of an angry coordinated crowd ready for the real action.

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 3 points 3 weeks ago

From the same business geniuses that though that having you pay a fee to be allowed to pick a seat next to your other family members in an airplane was a good idea...

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

No, but I've set it to Nyan Cat.

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