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Stanley--Nickels t1_j1337no wrote

Reply to comment by accountabillibudy in Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative by geoxol

The only reason your data has value is because it can be used to affect your behavior for someone else’s benefit. It’s not free to pay with your data.

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accountabillibudy t1_j13d9tw wrote

I understand what you are saying but I would argue that there is a huge difference between selling your data to advertisers to try to target you with ads, the traditional approach, vs try to feed you extremist posts to drive your engagement with the platform by making you a more upset person.

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