Andy Liminal
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Andy Liminal
While most Americans likely believe that their drug prescriptions are protected from any form of exploitation under medical privacy laws like HIPAA, it turns out that those laws permit pharmacies like Walgreens to monetize their users through advertising. Specifically, pharmaceutical companies can pay Walgreens to send an advertisement for a drug t... See more
What Does It Mean For Social Media Platforms To "Sell" Our Data?
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The developers that turn to Facebook are there for one sole purpose: to reach Facebook’s two billion users.
Does that count as Facebook “selling” the data of two billion users? It certainly constitutes “selling access.”
Does that count as Facebook “selling” the data of two billion users? It certainly constitutes “selling access.”
What Does It Mean For Social Media Platforms To "Sell" Our Data?
you will find that on most days you’ll wake up, start reading or otherwise consuming the content in your feeds, and then you’ll get to the end. At that point, you’ll be able to do something amazing: literally anything else.
Setting Expectations | Unplatform
finiteness, constraints, endings are healthy. is it a luxury?
"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."
- Ray Bradbury
While the company took great pains to emphasize last week that it never ended up following through with the proposal, the mere fact that the company’s founder had openly discussed quite literally charging a per-user fee to access user data really drove home how the company views its users as monetizable entities being exploited by a for-profit comp... See more
What Does It Mean For Social Media Platforms To "Sell" Our Data?
Social media platforms often generate the majority of their revenue through selling hyper targeted advertising based on algorithmically mining every second of their unwilling and unwitting users’ lives. Yet those same companies go to great lengths to argue that they are not “selling” their users’ data. What does it mean for companies to “sell” our ... See more
What Does It Mean For Social Media Platforms To "Sell" Our Data?
gray areas, capitalism, and what are hyper capital corporations hiding; their golden goose..you?
This is a feature, not a bug.
“Doomscrolling” only exists as a phenomenon because the Web 2.0 platforms are specifically engineered to keep your eyes glued to the screen as much as possible.
“Doomscrolling” only exists as a phenomenon because the Web 2.0 platforms are specifically engineered to keep your eyes glued to the screen as much as possible.
Setting Expectations | Unplatform
Tumblr’s success from Infinite scroll, where you had your first taste of a never ending viewing party of curated digital fodder. Where the feeling/hunger/desire to reach the very end of their blog; the end where you see their very first post.
This was patient zero of doom scrolling/the forbidden fruit/The original seed via that simple line of code; Infinite scroll.
This in fact was a user made feature to make the experience of viewing a blog even more enjoyable such as the likes of adding a music player in your myspace blog. The seemingly [or maybe unseemingly] addition eventually gets injected with capitalism and sent into the factory where in which it mutates into a hollowed out version of itself where its abilities/usefulness/ is used primarily to exploit and colonize the users for monetary/capitalistic gain.