If your business model is putting ads in a stream, the last thing they want you to be able to do is to slice and dice and filter your stream.

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But do we trust Apple to filter our stream for us at this point?

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With a huge flow of information from many sources, some sort of activity stream filter is needed so that the amount of information flowing through a news feed does not become overwhelming and unmanageable.

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