{"id":276225,"date":"2018-12-02T14:08:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T14:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/12\/02\/one-of-the-reasons-i-feel-so-comfortable-using\/"},"modified":"2018-12-02T14:08:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T14:08:38","slug":"one-of-the-reasons-i-feel-so-comfortable-using","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/12\/02\/one-of-the-reasons-i-feel-so-comfortable-using\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/when-in-doubt-sing.tumblr.com\/post\/180425010677\/one-of-the-reasons-i-feel-so-comfortable-using\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">when-in-doubt-sing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/livenudebigfoot.tumblr.com\/post\/180370360944\/one-of-the-reasons-i-feel-so-comfortable-using\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">livenudebigfoot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chaos-ensuing.tumblr.com\/post\/179695202092\/one-of-the-reasons-i-feel-so-comfortable-using\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">chaos-ensuing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/minervafloofderg.tumblr.com\/post\/179205170164\/one-of-the-reasons-i-feel-so-comfortable-using\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">minervafloofderg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/minervafloofderg.tumblr.com\/post\/179205083639\/one-of-the-reasons-i-feel-so-comfortable-using\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">minervafloofderg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One of the reasons I feel so comfortable using Tumblr over other social media is because this site is clearly too incompetent to be evil.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The basic business model of a social network is to harvest commercially valuable personal data and sell it, most famously via targeted ads. Anyone visiting my blog can clearly see that I am a queer furry who\u2019s into video games and art. And yet I am only served ads for funeral homes, Bible story DVDs, and the current president\u2019s reelection campaign (in 2018 for some reason) <\/p>\n<p>Needless to say my click through rate has not been very good <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Me: Runs a blog dedicated to dungeons and dragons and anime<br \/>Tumblr: You know what, you strike me as a sporty type<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m a social media manager for my day job and Tumblr is literally the only social media platform I can relax on anymore because it\u2019s so incompetent when it comes to exploiting my personal data.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The tumblr personal data algorithm, trying to make sense of the hot mess that is my blog:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/25eb687658a56069b06dcc8040575d29\/tumblr_inline_piobdv5Trm1qzl8vv_540.gif\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when-in-doubt-sing: livenudebigfoot: chaos-ensuing: minervafloofderg: minervafloofderg: One of the reasons I feel so comfortable using Tumblr over other social media is because this site is clearly too incompetent to be evil. The basic business model of a social network is to harvest commercially valuable personal data and sell it, most famously via targeted ads. Anyone visiting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/12\/02\/one-of-the-reasons-i-feel-so-comfortable-using\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[654,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}