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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • Agreed, it’s a good book.

    My personal criticism is just that the author, at times, fails to look at the topic objectively due to his own personal grudge with the four from the time he had his own company.

    But it doesn’t ruin the book, the book is indeed good.

    E: And good point about the downvotes



  • I had a similar experience. Some niche local groups only exist on facebook and that’s why I had an account that I never deletes since making it like 15 years ago.

    My feed was filled with sketchy ads and recommendations so I didn’t use it. Kept in contact with some old friends via messenger and only used groups pretty much.

    That all changed few months ago when facebook locked my account for “suspicious activity” and showed me a prompt after logging in stating I need to upload a government issued ID to unlock my account. I checked and made sure this is actual facebook and not some fake site I accidentally would have somehow entered.

    “Suspicious activity” was me logging via the web browser on my phone using another teleoperator while traveling.

    When I returned from traveling I suddenly was able to unlock my account with just my email. Took the chance and deleted my account.

    Facebooks groups are amazing, but yeah, the price is your privacy. And I don’t mean just email and your personal preferences, shits wild what they know about you and what/how they gather information about you.

    If you are interested in reading about it:

    The book “The Four” from Scott Galloway. I personally didn’t like the authors bias on the matter but he summarizes it pretty well how/what facebook knows about you.

    Edit: why would people downvote OP’s question? It’s a good question imo.