Reason 10000 why facebook is a fucking cancer on society.
What’s crazy is that reason 10,000 is not even as high as the total number of reasons goes.
Its such a sad truth
They also promise to help you, then send a squad of goons to your house to kidnap you and confine you indefinitely in a mental institution (read: torture chamber).
Suicide prevention organizations have been inhumanly cruel for many years, so there’s nothing surprising about their cooperation with Facebook.
“Are you feeling depressed? Here are some extremist organizations we recommend you to join!”
-Facebook
Given how modern suggestion algorithms seem to be poorly moderated, unregulated black boxes aimed at keeping users engaged on site above all else… I won’t be surprised if/when we learn that this has literally happened.
It sounds like the organization might not have been aware that this fundraising tool was doing this, that’s even worse. They think they’re providing a service to people and raising money meanwhile the people they’re helping are unwittingly being tracked - who knows how this information could be misused by insurers/employers/etc etc.
I wonder what recourse the organizations could take? A lawsuit? Going to the media?
I wonder what recourse the organizations could take? A lawsuit? Going to the media?
it seems very unlikely, at face, that they’d have legal standing to sue here (for a variety of reasons but the biggest one is probably lack of a law being violated due to US privacy law being so poor) so probably bad PR at most to be honest
I appreciate that the only JS scripts Beehaw seems to load are from
beehaw.org. Usually NoScript shows like two full pages of domains, and (at least—you know, the obvious ones likexyzads4you.com) half of them are for ads and “analytics”.JS is first-party only, but as a PSA, Lemmy does not proxy images, so for someone could use
, and loading the comment will contactexample.com.Yeah. Good point. Might be a good feature to add…
