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How do they expect others to get free from FB and Google when they themselves are on Facebook and Instagram?
by ketanmaheshwari 6y ago
How do they expect others to get free from FB and Google when they themselves are on Facebook and Instagram?
- justaguyhere 6y agoYeah, that looks weird. I'd like to hear the rationale
- ardy42 6y ago>> Yeah, that looks weird. I'd like to hear the rationale > How do they expect others to get free from FB and Google when they themselves are on Facebook and Instagram? I'm guessing it's because Facebook and Instagram users are exactly their target audience. I quit Facebook several years ago, but I kept my account and continued to occasionally post news articles to my timeline about their scandals and how social media is personally bad for its users. I did this because I figured it would actually help them for me to just delete my account and disappear to their other users, and the best thing to do was to use their own platform to subvert them.
- dane-pgp 6y agoThat's a well-reasoned explanation, thank you. A more casual defence of their strategy would be to compare their critics to Mister Gotcha: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/ https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
- president 6y agoIt shows how powerful these platforms have come to be that even when you are protesting their monopolies/censorship, that you still have to rely on them to get the word across.
- chiefofgxbxl 6y ago> that you still have to rely on them to get the word across The website doesn't have to rely on React, Google analytics & CDN, et al. This is a simple website that could have been written in plain HTML and CSS, with server-side analytics if desired.
- Acen 6y agoPlus using Google Analytics. Edit: That might be from one of the plugins they're using on their WIX CMS though.
- fatnoah 6y agoAs I noted earlier, they're using Google Fonts and the Google CDN for jQuery. Additionally, they're including React, which is made available by Facebook.