Whatever. Why should companies help out their rivals? To this day, nobody is forced to use Facebook. I am not against helping rivals, synergies, whatever. But

Whatever. Why should companies help out their rivals? To this day, nobody is forced to use Facebook. I am not against helping rivals, synergies, whatever. But to claim it is unfair not to help rivals seems silly. Invariably, if somebody is successful, some people will emerge claiming it was all unfair gains. Not that I liked Facebook's approach, especially in the early days they were harvesting address books. It's not really an uncommon practice, though. The key point is, again, that nobody is forced to use them. It may be a bit more difficult to avoid their tracking on web sites, but then it is on those web sites not to use the Facebook scripts. And if you really care, you can install an AdBlocker.