cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25911857
I remember what made me quit facebook, way before it became Meta: the TV serie Person of interest. It gave me a big awarness of the scale of mass surveillance. I already had the project to quit because of Zuck’s shenanigans and the lack of interest i had in the platform, but this was the last straw for me.
I had to implement a Facebook Pixel for a client about a decade ago; learning how that worked and how wildly effective it was at tracking Facebook users, even while not logged into Facebook, was enough to drive me off mainstream social media.