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Welcome to the Age of Paid Social Media (gizmodo.com)
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[โ€“] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol, it will still be sold. They are still tracking your attention span and clicks. I can already think of two or three correlation tests to sell to advertisers based on that information alone.

[โ€“] SCB@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Except this change is occurring because of EU rules that don't allow them to gather that data.

Those rules are dumb, sure, but this is the workaround - and personally it's a workaround that I think is quite untenable. Social media succeeds because it is free.