I think it is the shady stuff that earns them money. They cant survive without that. The rest is a corporate hobby, basically.

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bstsb an hour ago | parent [-]

i think honestly it’s the opposite. it still confuses me why meta invested so much in their pointless experiments (think any of their AR ventures) when their main source of revenue was, and continues to be, their boring advertising on consumer apps

	▲	jorams 32 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You call it "boring advertising on consumer apps", but that's exactly where all the shady stuff keeps happening.
	▲	watwut 29 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> continues to be, their boring advertising on consumer apps That is where the ugly shady stuff is. > AR ventures That is the corporate hobby stuff.