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This really died after Cambridge Analytica. I was working at a social media company at the time and all public access and development of public APIs was halted.
by brigadier132 3y ago
This really died after Cambridge Analytica. I was working at a social media company at the time and all public access and development of public APIs was halted.
Things like Gen AI are the nails in the coffin.
- JimDabell 3y agoI was occasionally working on Facebook applications around 2008–2010 and even back then Facebook had clauses in their terms and conditions forbidding using a person’s social graph to build them a new social graph or mirror their data elsewhere. LinkedIn had the same. The restrictions started coming in a long time before the Cambridge Analytic scandal. They stopped it because they didn’t want the competition, not because of privacy issues.
- brigadier132 3y agoCambridge analytica was the "casus belli" if you will. It was an overnight shift, I worked on the public api team and all our work was deprioritized and I was eventually moved to a different project. I'm sure there were competing factions, even in in Facebook, some advocating for open apis and other advocating for locking everything down.