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Facebook Watches Teens Online As They Prep for College – The Markup (themarkup.org)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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"After signing into their ACT account, if a student accepted cookies on the following page, Facebook received details on almost everything they clicked on—including scrambled but identifiable data like their first and last name, and whether they’re registering for the ACT. The site even registered clicks about a student’s ethnicity and gender, and whether they planned to request college financial aid or needed accommodations for a disability"

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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How can I do that, like linking to an image and there being thumbnail so you don'thave to click it?

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

![img](link)

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

We did it Lemmy!

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

[You've done well]

Edit: I FUCKING LOVE YOU, WAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Edit: is there any way to caption the text or abstract over displaying the link with the text you want go caption it as? Is that somehow possible?

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think so. AFAIK there is no native method to caption images in markdown, which is what this editor uses. People try to bring about this effect by italicising the part they would want as a caption right underneath the image. However, in your case, I see a [You've done well] banner underneath the image, which I assume is the caption you meant. Not sure how that happened but if that works, great!

*some text* = some text

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

What do you think about my workaround I edited in? It works, however inelegantly

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Hmm, I'm on my computer now and I can't see the image for some reason.

Edit: sorry, just my browser. But why do I see two [You’ve done well]s?

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

U see it?!

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Your reply to your comment above is better: just one italicised caption makes it easy to understand. Great job!

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

We did it Lemmy

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

We did it Lemmy

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You've done well

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago

![image name](URL)