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This is ridiculous. Please back up your claim that either Angular or React include literally any kind of spying capability whatsoever.

• dictum 9y ago
  You're not wrong, but I think the parent commenter touched a good point, just not in the most masterful way: using open source software from Facebook or Google increases their soft power over the web and Open Source in general. In the same way Google pretty much decides web standards these days (unless most other implementors refuse to back a proposed standard; even then, Chrome can keep supporting something), Facebook could end up deciding standards. The former with the browser, the latter with code that runs in the browser. Though Vue has more contributors now, that a single person could start and grow an open source project, with his own goals an opinions, shaping a community around certain principles, is something that appeals to me on philosophical and political grounds. By the way, until recently, the recommended way to get started with React (unless you were using a bundler, hosting it yourself or using another CDN) was to load it from fb.me, a Facebook-owned domain.
• baxtr 9y ago
  Ok, I realized, that I’ve used the wrong words. I’m sorry for that. What I meant: I believe big corporations like FB and Google do open source for a reason. A strategic reason. There are two that come to mind: (a) being able to push standards (like MS tried with IE). (b) usually these libraries are loaded from the respective companies’. It is possible that the loading data is then used to augment other data they have. In the end, both companies’ business models is based on data, only. Compare that with vue.