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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Facebook gets more useless
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:00:09 -0000 (UTC)
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The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote at 19:48 this Tuesday (GMT):
> On 4/23/24 10:10 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>> The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote at 16:59 this Tuesday (GMT):
>>> On 4/23/24 8:00 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>> The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote at 03:34 this Tuesday (GMT):
>>>>> On 4/22/24 2:45 AM, Jim Jackson wrote:
>>>>>> I know - don't use it! But ...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Several groups I'm involved with use it, so I created an account.
>>>>>> Minimal, and wrong, personal info, set to just follow the groups I
>>>>>> needed to follow, and all worked fine. I was getting just the recent
>>>>>> stuff in my feed.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Until just now, when I'm getting loads of suggestions of groups to
>>>>>> follow that I'm not interested in! It makes following the stuff I want
>>>>>> to see painfull.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The more I see of facebook the less I like.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> sorry for the rant
>>>>>
>>>>> No need. It sucks.  I've made my facebook experience as close to usenet 
>>>>> as I can, but it's miles away.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you're using firefox or chrome, install the Social Fixer extension. 
>>>>> It will enable you to filter out a LOT of the annoying stuff -- like 
>>>>> anything with 'suggested' in any part of the post.  You should already 
>>>>> be using adblock plus...
>>>> 
>>>> I'm suprised they haven't fought that extension yet.
>>>
>>> They made him change its name and they've done something to disable some 
>>> of the more useful bits, but it's probably not worth their time and 
>>> effort.  What IS amazing is that the adblock* extensions still work. And 
>>> what's more amazing is that people complain about ads and don't use 
>>> adblocks :-(
>> 
>> Figures. Maybe people are scared of adblockers?
>
> More likely they've never heard of them.  There are tons of people who 
> don't even know about settings/preferences -- for any of the software 
> they use.


Fair. Of course, that means Google fighting them backfired a bit.
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