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mkarrmann • yesterday at 5:18 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> What's being implied is that your nefarious company is building another product that exists solely to suck up people's attention and time inorder to build a profile to sell them garbage that they don't need and use their personal data to manipulate them.

You're free to speculate that Meta is lying about what it will or won't use the data for. I won't argue over that. That's an important topic and I'm not gonna persuade anyone via an HN comment. Skepticism is fine

But the example linked to in the above comment is not evidence of that at all. A skill explaining how to format purchase history in markdown format is not evidence of hidden motivations.

In general the entire thread is nothing-burger, and that's all I'm getting at.


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foltik • yesterday at 6:42 PM

We all know exactly what it’s for, don’t pretend you don’t.

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suttontom • yesterday at 7:41 PM

The comment you're responding to has two sentences separated by a period. You can use that as an indication that the two issues being pointed out are, in fact, separate things. Do you understand now?

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