Life is better without selling your data.
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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Selling our data implies that we get to have profits.
Life is better without companies selling our data.
Might be tad more on point.
Gotcha, I can do 16 hours of Insta on coke off the toilet seat and be OK. Thank you CDC!
Instagram, really is ZUCKERBoRG using his puppets in his stead.
"Because like 10hr of that is background usage while we harvest your data."
"That's not addiction. They can log off anytime. Bro, it's called commitment."
First stage: denial.
Do better, BBC.
He's right, it's whatever we call the next stage up from addiction.
Oh, fuck this article. He didn't say it wasn't . He just didn't even mention the word at all.
He just didn't even mention the word at all.
Did we read the same article? You can literally search for where he uses the word.
"It's important to differentiate between clinical addiction and problematic use," he added.
"I'm sure I've said that I've been addicted to a Netflix show when I binged it really late one night, but I don't think it's the same thing as clinical addiction."
Yeah, I dunno what article that dude read. Or didn't read, apparently.
When I read Instagram boss: 