John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
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Why not just recommend adblockers? No ads, no revenue, no matter how much tracking.
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Remember "Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption"? You can't get stuff like this in stores!
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one can always delete their accounts
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It's an in joke referencing some stuff he did in a previous season. I don't think there's any specific connection to Facebook.
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He only now was able to catch up with all the news with Meta moderation from a month ago. He is only a couple weeks back on air.
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rat erotica
aah thank you! now I can make sense of those last jumbled letters, quite the unusual word combination for sure ^^
Newsweek - The True Story Behind 'Last Week Tonight's' Rat Erotica Painting (archive link)
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Nice! Just shared this (as a PDF without the domain name lol) with my family!
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it’s going to hurt Meta’s bottom
lineeventuallyJust hurting Meta's bottom is good enough for me
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Not easy for most users on app-based mobile/tablet devices.
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(Puts on tinfoil hat) His parent company, Discovery-Warner Bros, probably wouldn't like that? And John Oliver makes his living through ad revenue.
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AFAIK no, but it takes awhile for everything to sink in, and hosts like John Oliver only have so much air time.
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The site doesn't suggest any alternatives though or am I not seeing that?
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Selling user profiling data is also worth money, even if you're not shown ads because of ad-blockers you bring value to the dataset by increasing it's size with useful demographic data.
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Not easy for mobile devices? Firefox-based browsers on mobile can have Ublock Origin
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The alternatives were suggested briefly in the segment, not the site. Oliver pointed to the site those people who can't ditch Meta right now.
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I don’t want to get my hopes up but is this Facebook’s MySpace moment?
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"Normal" people don't use Facebook through the browser. Heck, I know functional, working adults that don't really understand the concept of a browser/URLs and just do everything through apps, bar the bare minimum for work.
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My personal MySpace moment for Facebook was 10 years ago. Best choice ever made.
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Or, even worse, they think that the internet is Google and vice versa.
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He decided to kiss the ring. People don't like that.
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