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[–] Twinklebreeze 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Aren't they more successful than ever? Sure anyone with half a brain avoids them, but everyone's Grandma has an account now. Still a net positive.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The article is talking about killing it from a product usefulness-perspective, not a monkey making-perspective.

[–] Typhoonigator 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

I'll keep it, cheers

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And they are serving lots of ads under the radar and shaping their tastes by intermixing the ads seamlessly with entertainment to bypass our advertisement "antibodies". Sometimes I find some of them saying things and having interests I've never known they had only to find their feed randomly peppered with these interlopers.