D'oh. I'm not in the same social circles as the poster you cited, but my questions were about Apple, not Tumblr.
In general, social media is in the business of facilitating/controlling communications between people, in order to make money off data mining, via advertising (at least), plus anything else they can think of.
Unless the social media you use has a plausibly different business model, then anyone who isn't living under a rock, and isn't a naive child, should be aware of that. Tumblr apparantly was better than e.g. Facebook. But I'm disinclined to use any social media site that doesn't charge me money, and have a clear story of how they are supporting themselves via customer payments.
So I'm here on Dreamwidth, complete with Seed Acoount (which is kind of cheating - I only had to pay once).
I probably wouldn't object if the business model only involved advertising, and the advertising was as easy to skip past as print advertising, and there was no technical way for advertising to also spread snoopwars and other malware. But that's not happening, so I'm not using ad supported social media sites. Not even with adblock.
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dancing_serpent
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Date: 2018-12-15 08:48 pm (UTC)In general, social media is in the business of facilitating/controlling communications between people, in order to make money off data mining, via advertising (at least), plus anything else they can think of.
Unless the social media you use has a plausibly different business model, then anyone who isn't living under a rock, and isn't a naive child, should be aware of that. Tumblr apparantly was better than e.g. Facebook. But I'm disinclined to use any social media site that doesn't charge me money, and have a clear story of how they are supporting themselves via customer payments.
So I'm here on Dreamwidth, complete with Seed Acoount (which is kind of cheating - I only had to pay once).
I probably wouldn't object if the business model only involved advertising, and the advertising was as easy to skip past as print advertising, and there was no technical way for advertising to also spread snoopwars and other malware. But that's not happening, so I'm not using ad supported social media sites. Not even with adblock.