• desktop_user [they/them] @lemmy.blahaj.zoneBanned
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    2 months ago

    Lemmy is far from normal, it is not profitable as a social media platform and is reliant on donations and generosity.

    Google AdSense does similar things to meta, as does amazon. This is far from a misuse, of the technology as that implies that this isn’t accomplishing the intended goal, which, aside from laws trying to differentiate children from adults, it does.

    • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 months ago

      Neither google (at least for the first decade or so) or Amazon have such detailed data about you as facebook