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One step solution, delete your account.


if only that was a solution that was effective. while theZuck may not be able to monetize your eyeballs directly, he can still make his yacht payments off of the data you generate for him free of charge from every other website using his SDKs


Sure, but if we believe the conceit of the article that making some settings within facebook reduces your value to them, stopping altogether must reduce your value even more.


It only reduces the value that they are not serving you ads based on direct targeting based on your metaprofile. They are still going to serve you ads. They are still going to be collecting data about you from all of their products be it their apps where your actively and knowingly providing them that data by how you use their apps, or whether it is through the embedded SDKs in other apps or websites you use and you are not knowingly providing them data by how you use these other apps/sites.

You will never be worth $0 to Meta. The analytics they can glean can be used in other ways than just providing you a targeted ad experience. You're still telling them trends. You're still telling them what someone of your sex, income level, age, geographic location, blah blah blah prefers to spend their time online doing.


Maybe, but if the settings get you down to the completely targeted level there’s not really any lower value you can go.


people spending time on facebook is probably more profitable for them than people not doing that


Its been 6 months without social media. I didn't missed any news or update that really matters to me.


He was very humble person , never showed off his wealth, and mostly followed responsible capitalism, these are the reason why many indians see him as an inspiration. RIP sir


It took me 1+ year to recover from it. Left the job, had no idea what to do for months. Now feeling a bit better, able to think clearly, also started learning new things again.


I would also recommend reading as many books as you can. Don't know what is the condition there, whether you can get the physical books or not. However, https://www.pdfdrive.com is a a good source for e-books, download as many as you can and store them.


Bad days will continue for FAANG. Russia-Ukraine war will end. Inflation will remain high.


> Russia-Ukraine war will end.

The interesting part will be how and on what terms...


here we go:

russia wins.

either in H2 militarily or in H1 by an (unconditional) settlement with "the west" - read the USA - in which case russia more or less will be able to dictate the terms of the agreement.

just my 0.02€


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