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Good for Europe on more than one level, I suppose.
by java-man 6y ago
Good for Europe on more than one level, I suppose.
- weinzierl 6y agoI doubt it. Not because Facebook is good but because I fear what would fill the vacuum left behind if they retreat. Do you want a taste? Look what Hubert Burda's companies are doing and you will want Facebook back.
- klyrs 6y agoI just looked up Burda but couldn't find anything salacious. Not surprising for a media mogul, I guess. Can you be more precise?
- weinzierl 6y agoBurda is behind the Clix browser which brands itself as a privacy respecting Chrome/Firefox alternative but is outright spyware in my opinion. There have been a few threads about this on HN in the past. Another example is Xing which is a surprisingly popular LinkedIn clone that copies many of the dark patters of the original.
- durnygbur 6y agoXing-like pulp will be the European Facebook? Oh god no. In EU only German media corporations have enough money to enter this market, but they have no sophistication to create anything engaging or interesting. Facebook-like success story of bunch of folks building something from scratch simply doesn't occur in Europe and it is disgraceful.
- lazyasciiart 6y agoTell Spotify.
- weinzierl 6y agoAs someone who's been on Xing from the very beginning (when it was still called OpenBC) and has been on LinkedIn for sometime my opinion is this: You can accuse Xing of many things but not that they are behind LinkedIn. I mean regarding the technology, UX and overall experience I have no complaints and I find the community there much more pleasant than LinkedIn. That's one reason I'm still on Xing, but quit LinkedIn some time ago. What I criticize though is their use of dark patterns and tricking their users into accepting things they most probably don't really want. In that regard they are more akin to Facebook and maybe even worse than the recent LinkedIn.