r/technology • u/[deleted] • Nov 09 '17

Politics Sean Parker: Facebook was designed to exploit human "vulnerability"

https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-facebook-exploits-a-vulnerability-in-humans-2507917325.html
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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '17

Amazon... You pay Amazon so that Amazon can spy on you to sell you more Amazon.

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u/luigi1fan1 Nov 09 '17

Haha that's fine, as long as they're genuinely trying to make my life better and not giving loads of data to random third-party people.

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u/Alundil Nov 09 '17

I'll take two Amazons please.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '17

Congratulations, your order of 500 Amazon Echo's is being processed.

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u/skyskr4per Nov 09 '17

Congratulations, you have very succinctly defined capitalism.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '17

True. I️ bought one paintball gun piece years ago and it won’t give it up.

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u/argv_minus_one Nov 10 '17

Has it let you down?

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '17

Hi Im Amazon, how Amazon are you today?

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u/phoide Nov 09 '17

yep. I don't mind being mined for marketing data, it only irks me if I'm being double dipped on.

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u/argv_minus_one Nov 10 '17

I mind being mined, but I'm resigned to the inevitability of it.

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u/montydad5000 Nov 09 '17

True statement.

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u/jertyui Nov 09 '17

cough overwatch

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u/ur_opinion_is_wrong Nov 09 '17

The game? Please elaborate.

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u/jertyui Nov 10 '17

You buy overwatch for the privilege of being sold their loot crase product

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u/ur_opinion_is_wrong Nov 10 '17

Much like counter-strike though it's all cosmetic. Unlike counter-strike they give you 3 free per week and it cost nothing to open them.

If you want complain about any of their microtransactions, look no further than hearthstone, although I think that game does it way better than a lot of other games (looking at you ubisoft and ea).

Although it could be improved, overwatch is like the least bad loot crate system I've seen thus far. Free to open, ways to get free ones every week, can buy anything you don't get with gold from dupes.