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<blockquote data-quote="Magic" data-source="post: 306163" data-attributes="member: 23359"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><u><span style="font-size: 18px"><a href="https://ello.co/beta-public-profiles" target="_blank">Ello</a></span></u></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em>"Ello is a simple, beautiful, and ad-free social network created by a small group of artists and designers.</em></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em>We originally built Ello as a private social network. Over time, so many people wanted to join Ello that we built a public version of Ello for everyone to use."</em></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em></em></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em></em></p> <p style="text-align: center">Is it the next big thing? The new Facebook maybe? It is currently invite only, I have already requested mine and hope I get invited soon. It's been all over the internet for the last few days and I am sure excited for it. The creators have some cool ideas and the whole thing is ad free. With ad-block how ever this isn't that major but it's nice that they care. I also dig the design, it's clean and simple and something different to most social networks. Anyway let me know your thoughts on the whole project.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><u><span style="font-size: 18px">Their no Ad policy</span></u></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em>Ad Free</em></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em>Ello doesn't sell ads. Nor do we sell data about you to third parties.</em></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em>Virtually every other social network is run by advertisers. Behind the scenes they employ armies of ad salesmen and data miners to record every move you make. Data about you is then auctioned off to advertisers and data brokers. You're the product that's being bought and sold.</em></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em>Collecting and selling your personal data, reading your posts to your friends, and mapping your social connections for profit is both creepy and unethical. Under the guise of offering a "free" service, users pay a high price in intrusive advertising and lack of privacy.</em></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em>We also think ads are tacky, that they insult our intelligence and that we're better without them.</em></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magic, post: 306163, member: 23359"] [CENTER][B][U][SIZE=5][URL='https://ello.co/beta-public-profiles']Ello[/URL][/SIZE][/U][/B] [I]"Ello is a simple, beautiful, and ad-free social network created by a small group of artists and designers. We originally built Ello as a private social network. Over time, so many people wanted to join Ello that we built a public version of Ello for everyone to use." [/I] Is it the next big thing? The new Facebook maybe? It is currently invite only, I have already requested mine and hope I get invited soon. It's been all over the internet for the last few days and I am sure excited for it. The creators have some cool ideas and the whole thing is ad free. With ad-block how ever this isn't that major but it's nice that they care. I also dig the design, it's clean and simple and something different to most social networks. Anyway let me know your thoughts on the whole project. [B][U][SIZE=5]Their no Ad policy[/SIZE][/U][/B] [I]Ad Free Ello doesn't sell ads. Nor do we sell data about you to third parties. Virtually every other social network is run by advertisers. Behind the scenes they employ armies of ad salesmen and data miners to record every move you make. Data about you is then auctioned off to advertisers and data brokers. You're the product that's being bought and sold. Collecting and selling your personal data, reading your posts to your friends, and mapping your social connections for profit is both creepy and unethical. Under the guise of offering a "free" service, users pay a high price in intrusive advertising and lack of privacy. We also think ads are tacky, that they insult our intelligence and that we're better without them.[/I] [/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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