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Steve Wozniak shuts down his Facebook account in protest (2018)
- chillacy 7y ago(April 9, 2018)
- egypturnash 7y ago(2018)
- old_news_is_old 7y agothat article is more than one year old published April 9, 2018
- dTal 7y agoYou created an account just to say that?
- lightedman 7y agoWell, obviously HN doesn't allow non-registered readers to comment, so...
- nullandvoid 7y agoSpot the Facebook employee
- Boulth 7y agoSubmission's title is inaccurate: > Still, he didn’t delete his Facebook account — just deactivated it — for fear that someone else would snatch up the screen name “stevewoz.”
- 50656E6973 7y ago>“The profits are all based on the user’s info, but the users get none of the profits back.” >“As they say, with Facebook, you are the product.” Whenever people become products or property of another party it's a pretty good sign something has gone very wrong. Perhaps its time we had a Personal Data Emancipation Proclimation and positively asserted the intellectual property rights of one's own personal information over those who seek to own it through coercion and deception. The technically literate like Woz and many on HN are among the greatest critics of these human data traffickers, while the technically illiterate masses continue to "voluntarily" give up their data; reminiscent of how upon learning to read, Frederick Douglass finally understood the reality of his bondage while noting that his fellow slaves were contented in being illiterate and ignorant.
- jarfil 7y agoFacebook gives its users access to a social platform, which is clearly something users like, without asking for any money in return. It isn't like they're forcing people to use it, people are free to decide for themselves unlike slaves. Of course no stuff is really free, so they have to get money some other way... but maybe they should be more open about it, maybe offer an "enhanced privacy mode" for like $10/month? You're still free to use any other social network though, including the ability to self-host a blog and email if you wish.
- omnimus 7y agoI think they tried in the past but their tests showed that it would be less profitable and uncovering that they make more than 10usd/month on "free" users would convince lot of users to leave.
- nikhildahake 7y agoWould people be interested in a social network that allows them to own their data? I built a prototype. Check it out here: https://www.timelines.co https://www.timelines.co =Timelines -- A social network that allows you to own your data. =Share beautiful moments of your life with friends, family or the world. =Easily customize who sees which post. =Maintain ownership of your data at all times. Timelines stores your data in a specific folder on your Google Drive which is sandboxed from all your other data on Google drive. =You'll need a Google account to use Timelines! What do you guys think?
- Nextgrid 7y agoGoogle is a cancer/advertising company. Why would you use them for storage for a supposedly privacy-friendly social network?
- nikhildahake 7y agoHow else do you propose to own your data? What if I encrypt the data before storing on Google drive and decrypt it after fetching from google drive? To answer your question: Right now, the storage is provided by them. So, I don't need to worry about paying for a user's storage. It is on google. And as stated above, data can always be encrypted before storing.
- rambojazz 7y agoThis looks like a bad joke. If I want to own my data I would not use your website, especially given that it requires a Google Drive account.
- nikhildahake 7y agoHow else do you propose to own your data? What if I encrypt the data before storing on Google drive and decrypt it after fetching from google drive? Your data is pretty much all over the internet anyway. On HN news servers, your mail servers, etc etc. So, how do you decide who to trust and who not to?