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A mixture of bad tech legislation, concerns over Russian interference, and good old-fashioned anti-competitive tendencies. Having itself supplanted MySpace, Fa
by danShumway 7y ago
A mixture of bad tech legislation, concerns over Russian interference, and good old-fashioned anti-competitive tendencies.
Having itself supplanted MySpace, Facebook is in a good position to see how easy data-exports can help competitors supplant a dominant company.
3rd-party clients are also a good way to remove ads and tracking, which is obviously not in Twitter or Facebook's best financial interest.
- buboard 7y agoYet they still provide with tools to export all data . So i don't think the migration of users is a major concern for them. I 'm personally all in favor of making the APIs open and unlimited again, but within a month you 'll have journalists nagging again
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y agoExport tools happened after GDPR.
- buboard 7y agothey existed long before gdpr, e.g.: https://www.askdavetaylor.com/export-data-facebook/ https://www.askdavetaylor.com/export-data-facebook/
- beatpanda 7y agoThis fight is much older than that. If you want to get sad, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed