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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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[โ€“] normalexit 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

The company name is telling. Metadata is data about data. Data about you. They sell that. That's their whole business. That should be enough to not want to knowingly feed them more.

You think, "but I don't use Facebook or insta or threads, so I'm safe". Not so fast. Companies want to know how effective their ad spending is on meta products, so they integrate the Facebook sdk into their apps.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-events

They are just over there sucking up data and selling it for billions. Oh and influencing elections and radicalizing our parents while their code infects apps and websites. The cancer comparison isn't far off.

[โ€“] gaterush 2 points 1 month ago

I recently signed up for some utilities for my house and a form button wasn't working. It was a pretty basic form, I turned off ad-block to see if some traffic was being blocked or some other network error.

Well that didn't fix the button, but it did reveal a call every 2 seconds to the Facebook tracker service. Figures...

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