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Crap like this is why I haven't had the Facebook or Instagram apps installed for years. I still have accounts, but I only visit them via the browser.
by Xiol32 1y ago
Crap like this is why I haven't had the Facebook or Instagram apps installed for years. I still have accounts, but I only visit them via the browser.
- sklargh 1y ago[flagged]
- Thorrez 1y agoThere are over 300M companies in the world. It seems only 2 companies did this. So look at the revenue models of the other 299,999,998 companies. Meta only started this less than a year ago, so look at their revenue model prior to that.
- einpoklum 1y agoI heard they arrested a serial bank-robber and he said this in court when they asked him why he did it.
- qwertox 1y agoImagine a website not being a trojan horse, but directly serving non-targeted advertising to users at the same level as their content. They could target it by tailoring it to content they're serving, just like I'd be ok with seeing an ad for a new car when I'm on a page reading about the properties of a given combustion engine.
- account42 1y agoAdvertising itself is a trojan horse. The entire purpose of advertising is to influence you into doing things that are in the advertisers interest instead of your own.
- gdwatson 1y agoIf unethical behavior is more lucrative than ethical, it will always be tempting. But that doesn't make it ethical.
- kentm 1y agoIt’s not our responsibility to do so. A company doesn’t have some inherent right to exist such that we must accept unethical behavior.
- kstrauser 1y agoThat’s their problem, not mine. I don’t need Facebook’s or Yandex’s continued existence to enjoy life.
- codedokode 1y agoI am not going to register with FB because they now require a 3D face scan to use it.
- bravesoul2 1y agoIt just wants to make me bin my phone tbh. Thank God for RMS and Linus that at least you can run GNU and Linux on a laptop as there is little left outside the panopticon.