Facebook was shit from the start (remember the suckerbergs " they trust me, dumb fucks" statement?). It's more like a Google path.
Appear useful, gather data, then become overtly evil.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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I wouldn't worry about the Facebook path.
ChatGPT will never make as much money as Facebook.
ChatGPT is much more likely to lose as much money as Facebook makes.
that's fine. ChatGPT is 100 times easier to quit and forget about than Facebook. ChatGPT serves zero benefit for most people in their daily lives. It's extremely easy to stop using a tool that constantly hallucinates solutions.
I'm not that sure for that I see people using it for literally everything
Seriously. As someone who only did a few prompts and chats when it first came out, I do not understand what people are getting so much use out of. I guess they just mostly trust the bullshit it spits out so it seems like it saves time?
pretty much. you'll see it first hand with the vibe coding shit. sure the basics will work but none of it will scale, it'll be full of exploits, and just garbage all around. But most people simply don't know better and trust whatever the LLM spits out.
I mean people hail Claude as the best out there but if you know any better and you've spent any time with it then you'd know it's 100% useless. not a single solution it spits out these days is correct. and Claude Code has become noticeably worse.
I kinda like it for code review, just not generation. I've also had it generate me some tutorials on stuff I want to learn (mostly Kubernetes) while keeping in mind that it's probably doing the most insecure thing possible...but that's how most of the human-written tutorials I ever followed were, anyway.
AI is just a worse version of rubber duck debugging. I guarantee you you will learn better, faster and more accurately by just reading the actual documentation.
I've done rubber duck debugging. This works better for me.
Your brain is atrophying but get it man.
I use AI for;
- Translation
- Grammar
- Text editing
- Categorization
- Summarization
- OCR
I don't use AI for;
- Life, health, finance, legal... advice
- Chatting
- Quick answering
- Researching
Why would anyone have expected different that's on them
Well im definitely not the first person that points out that you can't ask an ai for an opinion anymore (of coarse about nothing important) because it could answer with an ad
You could probably tell the computer it‘s a left radical marxist before asking something and it will spare you the ads. This technology is stupidly easy to „hack“.
I mean they probably know that and maybe put a system in place so you can't roleplay your way out of it. Idk every 5. Query gets processed by an separated agent. Or that shit gets hard coded and if it doesn don't it doesn't get good boi points or something in that ballpark
What system? It‘s an LLM. A blackbox. Any accomplishments regarding cybersecurity are rendered useless with LLMs. That‘s why you should never use agent based applications for important things. Not now. Not ever.
You can always insert prompt your way out of any guard rails if you are persistent enough. It might become too bothersome at some point to use it on a daily basis but it will never be completely fixed and right now it‘s fairly easy and there are plenty of free alternatives.
It‘s also unlikely you‘ll get banned by removing ads this way. Websites already detect if you have an adblock installed but the only ones who actively try to do something about it are a dying breed like newspapers. If Google or Facebook aren‘t banning users for using adblockers en masse then other AI companies won‘t ban you for a little anti-capitalist role play.
I have right to decide what shouldn't show on my screen.
They have a right to throw you out too. They just don‘t enforce it because it‘s not worth losing users over. They still can make money from your information and contributions so it‘s unlikely they will ever truly fight adblockers.
so it‘s unlikely they will ever truly fight adblockers.
funny :D
they did and they do but they can't win
- 2015 https://time.com/4065962/our-attention-is-just-a-pawn-in-the-great-game-of-silicon-valley/
- 2016 https://venturebeat.com/media/youtube-shows-adblock-plus-users-an-error-message-instead-of-ads
- 2023 https://www.tomsguide.com/news/youtubes-anti-ad-block-efforts-have-now-gone-global-what-you-need-to-know
- 2025 https://android.gadgethacks.com/news/youtubes-grey-screen-issue-isnt-a-bugits-ad-war/
- 2026 https://lemmy.zip/post/58951623
it's impossible bro you can't beat this
because:
For security and privacy they are essential
even Google itself is using adblockers (look: Google Translate Webpage tool) (also look at this https://farside.link/x.com/gorhill/status/1714815061326237703 uBlock Origin preinstalled on official YouTube live event computer :D
Among technical audiences the rate of blocking reached 58% as of 2021 1 You guess 2026!
As of 2021, 27% of US Internet users used ad blocking software, a trend that has been increasing since 2014 2 You guess 2026
Even FBI says use an adblocker https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2022/PSA221221
So if thet wants to fight that's ok we will fight