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You know, Facebook, built by the guy who scraped college databases for personal information without the student's permission. There was never any expectation o

• ben_w 6d ago
  That's the trick: in the early years, most people didn't know Zuckerberg's history.
  • bigyabai 6d ago
    Caveat emptor, the saying goes. If people don't have an appetite for privacy, don't expect them to take a principled stance based on outrageous headlines. It's not a coincidence that federally backdoored spyware like Windows is the most popular operating system in the world. I too remember the shocked headlines of the Snowden revelations, and ten-plus years later I work shoulder to shoulder with people that couldn't possibly care less. There is no expectation of privacy, HN too quickly extrapolates it's own virtue signalling to normal people that enjoy using spyware like TikTok, Facebook and Windows.
    • ben_w 5d ago
      Lot of that, for sure. But also, today, a lot of lawsuits about Facebook knowingly getting people addicted, and governments changing the laws to resist the general category. But not, as you say, for Windows (and others*) spyware. * I'm 95% sure the slow-walking of one very easy bug I (and others) reported to Ubuntu was there by government mandate, though obviously I couldn't guess which government. Both the ISOs and the SHA256 hashes themselves were served insecurely until… my email archive says I reported in 2015 and it was closed in 2022.