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The language of this post seems extremely carefully chosen and to present as 'let me explain why what Facebook did was fine' and 'Facebook is full of great feat
by i_am_proteus 8y ago
The language of this post seems extremely carefully chosen and to present as 'let me explain why what Facebook did was fine' and 'Facebook is full of great features that people use.' The language is somewhere in between reductive and manipulative.
"this work was about helping people" and "people could have more social experiences" and "People want to use Facebook features"
and then: "Our integration partners had to get authorization from people. You would have had to sign in with your Facebook account to use the integration offered by Apple, Amazon or another integration partner."
I read the last quote as "we used a dark pattern[1] to get your permission for this"
[1]https://darkpatterns.org/ https://darkpatterns.org/
- jahlove 8y agothis isn't clear to you? https://i.imgur.com/UdfzvGU.png https://i.imgur.com/UdfzvGU.png
- i_am_proteus 8y agoThere's a reason the post wasn't worded as "you would have had to explicitly give permission for Spotify to access all of your messages." It is my opinion that Facebook recognizes exactly how unethical their behavior was, as evidenced by the language they choose to use to describe their behavior.