This is one of the most interesting and fundementals dillams happening. Meta absolutely depends on being able to deliver targted ads towards users, it is a must for that business model.

So in the end it seems fair to ask users either to pay for the service costs, or accept the directed advertising.

What is even more interesting is what other ways this could work? How can a platform - in general, not just meta - provide a “free” service, without monetizing it with targeted advertising?

Are we going to have to get all users to pay for every little service we use? Are we willing to do that to avoid advertising? To avoiding targeting?

This outcome of this will be a lot more important than most people realise.

I love flavours of weird.

My wife often praises my mother for having thought me from an early age that using the fabric scissors is a deadly sin.

It could be some specific Russian individuals fault. Someone who is deemed extraordinarily stupid - not representive of Russians at all - who gets to carry all the blame.

Why are the eyes floating in mid air?

Because most people view it as morally wrong to kill another human.

Yes, the reason being they are human.

It is absolutely not illegal. But it is subject to GDPR, so I could send a deletion request to the admin of an instance, and they would have to delete my content on their instance.

Not just AI tools. They outsource captcha solving to cheap human labour.