• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      4 days ago

      People who love privacy won’t be seeing adverts anyway because they’ll block them, get them off the platform to reduce server load (thus reducing costs) and only keep the users that will generate revenues.

      • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        The users who generate revenue are those who post. Someone who posts 1k a day but watches no ads is far more valuable than someone who watches 1k ads a day but never posts.

    • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      95·
      4 days ago

      Placing privacy focused content into a user’s suggested feed is likely intentional. Why would any platform actively promote content that is opposed to the company’s business model. It seems rather nonsense for a place like YouTube to promote this type of content, yet they do. Perhaps that is intentional and purposeful. This kind of abstract and indirect problem solving is the kind of thing I am good at in a job if I am given objectives and time to mull over solutions.

      Most humans display some kinds of paranoia. It is easy to spin privacy as a disproportionate evil because of the uncertainty of scope and motives involved. The act of suggesting a potential threat in the periphery a few times is enough to get most people to eventually engage with that content. It would be easy and effective to use this suggestive mechanism to push people off of a platform. This pattern loosely fits my experience. I bet it fits with others too. These platforms and ad companies have been hiring the best and brightest psych majors for a decade. All of that talent is used for something profitable.

      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
        12·
        4 days ago

        Great in principle, lacking on delivery imo.

        First thing you could mention is that youre talking about platforms not people. Especially the headline reads very different for people here I guess.

        That said, youtube doesnt promote what keeps you on the platform, they have other systems for that and for value as well.

        They promote what makes them money. Welcome to late stage capitalism. There already are a lot of alternative platforms like means, peertuve and so on. If you view them and talk about them they will grow.

        • biofaust@lemmy.world
          4·
          4 days ago

          This is correct and there is a Black Mirror episode that explains it well, the second one of the first season, Fifteen Million Merits.

          The final condition of the protagonist in that episode is the one of the Privacy-informing Youtubers and other creators, if they cannot make enough money with Patreon or other independent revenue streams.

          And even in that case, the original platform is making the most value out of it.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        4 days ago

        ELI5 means they wanted the simplified version. The simplified version is that privacy focused individuals don’t bring revenues to platforms like Reddit so for these platforms it’s a good idea to get rid of these users to reduce costs and to only keep the users who bring in revenues.

      • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        i’m pretty sure i agree with you, but it took me far too long to understand what you’re saying. you’ve got a great vocabulary. your intended audience probably doesn’t.