• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Also when “you’re the product” that doesn’t just mean that your data is the product. A user is a person whom you can influence. “You’re the product” means this company can direct you, influence you, change your behavior. They can offer your behavioral changes, as a service to their other stakeholders.

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      Shit. People think they collect all that data just for fun, don’t they? Time to change how I talk about this…

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      Marketing can be such an immoral, insidious process.
      And it takes thousands of people pushing this shit mindlessly, because hey… “It’s just a job, right? Nine to five”.