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

Sometimes you can't help but acknowledge the cleverness of evil.

Let's not pretend that we don't have this type of thing happen to us. Maybe not beauty products but any time I slip outside of my ad blockers I'm made accurately aware that they're always listening. It's not a coincidence the ads you see, the TikToks, and the Facebook ads. It's just used for adds right now but it should scare the shit out of people.

Remember: someone went out of their way and put effort into programming this.

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Gross

Why do we as a species hate teenage girls so much?

Dystopian as fuck

Just evil but you’ll never see anyone punished for it.

Advertising targeted towards minors needs to be banned.

This kind of shit should not be tolerated.

can't believe a social network started by incels in college to rate girls sexually would do something like this.

lol, Jesus. It is like what a screen writer would come up with for a movie that contained a terrible company run by terrible people doing stuff so outlandishly terrible everyone watching would think "the absurdity of the terrible is how you know it is made up".

That's 0% surprising. FB had always been about making girls feel bad. It's in its sorce code

Facebook... now even more toxic than previously known!

At some point we need to start criminalizing shit like this and actually holding people accountable.

TIL teen girls still used Facebook.

Saint Luigi deliver us from villains like Facebook

Teenagers should not be on social media. I rest my case.

Happy I got AdNauseam after uBlock Origin. Deleted my facebook a year ago, shit is an AI slopfest built upon the greed and manipulation of every part of the chain. Defcon 31 has a good talk that brings this up. "Disenshittify or die" by Cory Doctrow, cann recommend to watch.

Goddam I had to read that headline 3 times before I understood the implication!
That is outright disgusting, and such practices ought to be outlawed.
Or as Trump would say, very cool and very legal way to make money.

The book is very good. Reading it now. The writer starts off with a great story about a shark attack.

Zuckerberg’s $330 million mega yacht may be tracked here: https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9857511

even a scathing rant about surveillance capitalism becomes fodder for the machine, as you can clearly see with the ads on this page.

Ads? I can see no ads...

Based and marketing pilled

This type of advertising isn’t new. There is that famous (although the claims from the father have been questioned) New York Times article written by Charles Duhigg in 2012. A father of a teenage girl in Minnesota got upset for receiving coupons from Target for infant care related products. As the story goes, he later learned his daughter was in fact pregnant. It turns out Target was using some predictive algorithm to identify would-be mothers and straight up sending them coupons for infant care products. It seems ever since this article was published that they stopped doing this in such a direct manner. Again, there have people who questioned the validity of the claims for this specific story, but Target did confirm they were doing this.

Wonder how much of a bonus the sick fuck who pitched that got for the idea?

Be aware that the companies would have paid Facebook handsomely to identify users in this way. The world we live in has a sickness with greed for money at its heart.

Who the fuck comes up with this stuff?

I'm so glad I quit Facebook long ago and also started using uBlock Origin.

And tiktok is supposed to be our enemy?

How did they come up with this idea? Did the algorithm suggest this pattern, or did someone in marketing come up with it?

Fucking hell. That is vile!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci