“They’re replacing the internet with something else” is literal. It’s harder and harder to find what you want because you’re not allowed to have what you want anymore. You’re allowed to work hard till you die and hope Big Tech shares its merciful bounty with you. You can’t spell “social media” without “soma.”
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Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 days ago
I fucking hate the way Facebook changed how the site works so that clicking on an image no longer puts it in your browser history. Earlier today I saw a post where the swimmer whose track was shown in this specific image responded to the comments. It was actually quite an amusing interaction and I wish I could go back and share it here.
But also: the swimmer was a she, not a he.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 5 days ago
In case you are interested, facebook now opens links in a site of thier’s, but it contains an embedded window of the site you were linked to. This means that facebook can follow any other links you follow while on that site. It has the site effect of you not visiting that site but instead facebook’s “hidden window” shows in the history.
It has no practical reason to exist other than allowing them to gather more data.
Some mobile browsers might have an add-in to auto-break you out of the window.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 days ago
I’m not actually sure what you mean, but if I’m understanding it correctly, uhh, what? No they don’t. If you click an external link on Facebook they send you to it with a redirect, so they know you went to that site, but they don’t know of any further links you might click.
But anyway, that’s not relevant to this here, because it was a photo shared on Facebook, not an external link.
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 5 days ago
Ah sorry, I was slightly off, they used their own embedded browser in the app. So your external browser does not save the history as it was not used.
krausefx.com/…/ios-privacy-instagram-and-facebook…
Yea didn’t realise it was just an image, I was responding to the “doesn’t show in history” comment.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 days ago
Oh right. Yeah I haven’t had the Facebook app installed on my phone in like a decade.
But yeah, clicking on an image on the Facebook website doesn’t actually add it to your browser history, because Facebook tries to act like an SPA, a decision they made seemingly specifically to frustrate the user. Because in addition to not adding clicked images to your browser history, they also will refresh the page if you tab away and come back after a minute or two.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
If I understand what they’re saying (I’m not quite sure either), Facebook basically does a Man in the Middle Attack when you click a link that allows them to see what you click on after leaving their page?
On the one hand, it sounds crazy, but on the other it doesn’t sound outside the realm of possibility based on other things they supposedly do like create shadow accounts of people you and other people know/talk about to build a data profile on them and people they may know so that if they create an account, Facebook already knows what people are in their area and likely in their social circles (and the stuff that they actually do right out in the open where it’s obvious).
Still irrelevant to the issue anyway, but weird to think about. More to the point at hand, I wonder if your issue is caused by Facebook opening the picture in some kind of container instead of the actual page/link itself, like how Reddit opens images on the Reddit page when you try to open them directly - it won’t let you view the image as a source file if you try to open it from a search engine.
Psythik@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Why are you using Facebook?
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Imma go on a limb here and guess it’s because they want to.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That only creates additional, trickier questions.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Facebook has lots of interesting groups for hobbies and other interests. Yes, you can find groups like that outside of Facebook but they’re often much smaller and less active (unless you go to Reddit).
caurvo@aussie.zone 5 days ago
I’m still in it for niche hobby groups. Unfortunately the kind of information I’m looking for is hard to come by elsewhere. Even Reddit was not as good a source of community knowledge for these activities.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 days ago
Why are you being judgy about what websites someone uses?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
because they’re using a website that is complicit in making the world a lot worse? not sure how this is a strange concept on lemmy
CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 5 days ago
There’s a sports scientist, I’ve forgotten her name but she wrote a book called Women are Not Small Men. In her book she says that long distance swimming is one sport that women actually outperform men in.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
AND a she not a he! That’s amazing!
It would be more amazing if it were a he, not a she; all the best long-distance swimmers are women. Women have a significant advantage at this level.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 days ago
Eh, not really. It’s more that at this level the difference in performance between men and women closes significantly, with some ultra swim records being held by women. For the English Channel specifically, the current record for speed of crossing is held by a man. So it’s not particularly amazing that it was a woman (though it is amazing that it was a physically disabled woman!), but neither would it have been amazing had it been a man.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
ah, didn’t realize this. Thanks for explaining!
muzzle@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Can someone explain the “I did it for charity” angle? I never understood why would someone do a sporty thing, that they clearly woyld do anyway, motivate me or anyone else to donate money to a charity. To be honest it always felt quite performative and self serving to me.
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Think of it the other way around, doing extreme athletic feats (even for fun) is a great way to attract attention, and using that momentum to attract sponsors for charity is a nice extra to do some good
droans@midwest.social 4 days ago
You get people to “pledge” donations. It’s partly about raising awareness for the charity and partly because a lot of people are more likely to donate to these types of drives versus donating just because.
kazerniel@lemmy.world 5 days ago
thanks for finding the source, pretty interesting!
Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 days ago
Also, there was this hilarious comment under the original image:
Matthew Bowen: Fucking idiot. Obviously he couldn’t go straight for completely obvious reasons that I’m completely familiar with, as I assume everyone is too. What a loser