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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • There is bad clickbait out there and we do have to remain skeptical. So much is actively harmful.

    To dismiss good content because it seeks an audience is to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Indeed, by dismissing higher quality content as clickbait you can unintentionally elevate the true clickbait by putting them on the same level. I’m sure you don’t intend this.

    Headlines, titles, thumbs don’t really matter if the content is valuable. This video really was pretty good! I’d rather 14 y/o nerds or whoever watch this than some SpaceX worship or whatever other similar junk might be out there.











  • Not to defend Google because they violate privacy in many ways, but they absolutely do not share that level of data with partners. This is not some ethical decision. The data is just far too valuable to Google. Google is extracting as much value as they can from users, advertisers, and publishers, and if they sold access to the data itself, publishers and advertisers could begin cutting out Google. Instead Google gives advertisers a lot of control over what users to target, and uses the data inside a black box to show those ads.

    Google is hoarding your data and using it to show you ads with minimal built-in opt-outs. But they aren’t sell your data.