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Amazon, Facebook, ICE, and FBI have access to a private intelligence-sharing network (prismreports.org)

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[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Also the amount of bots (including, to a limited amount, private openclaw bots browsing the web) means that ads served are not really delivered to many humans (and said bots are really getting good at bypassing traditional captchas) & that destroys the value proposition of ads. That's why Meta lobbies so hard for age verification -- they want to be able to distinguish humans from bots, as they used to be able to