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Signal's downloads skyrocketed after WhatsApp announcement about Facebook(africa.businessinsider.com)
3 points by annadane 6y ago|2 comments
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by annadane 6y ago
I don't like "nothing will happen" as a talking point. "Nothing will happen" because... they cornered the market. They're the only game in town. It's the only way for many people to contact their friends.
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WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data with Facebook for Years(wired.com)
3 points by annadane 6y ago|1 comments
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by annadane 6y ago
I might say 'sociopath', but who's counting
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by annadane 6y ago
Does it never occur to them to say "Maybe the reason we're under attack is people want more privacy and control"? Not double down and take away people's options?
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by annadane 6y ago
Is Mark Zuckerberg legitimately a sociopath? Does he get off on lying to people?
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by annadane 6y ago
I would argue they basically invented it. A lot of the dirty tactics in play today are because companies feel the need to catch up to Facebook, who set the ecosystem as it is by continually being dishonest and predatory
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by annadane 6y ago
Why even bother commenting like that? You're not contributing anything
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by annadane 6y ago
stow needs a GUI frontend
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by annadane 6y ago
How's that taking privacy seriously thing going, fb?
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Facebook is chipping away at privacy – and my profile has been exposed (2016)(theguardian.com)
6 points by annadane 6y ago|1 comments
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by annadane 6y ago
People need to stop downvoting every single comment on here. This is a good faith argument, regardless of your feelings of fb/apple
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by annadane 6y ago
Here's the issue, Whatsapp had a system like that but then Facebook bought it up and it's hard to think of a reason beyond 'we want to crush our competition'
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by annadane 6y ago
You know, I think there's a number of separate issues in general. Assume the tracking and collecting of personal data from other sites is fine, that there's nothing wrong with it. They could still a) not try to buy up all their co
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by annadane 6y ago
Yeah, this is the answer. Absolutely correct
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by annadane 6y ago
This is what is known as "drinking the kool-aid".
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Lawsuits Filed by FTC and the State Attorneys General Are Revisionist History(about.fb.com)
8 points by annadane 6y ago|16 comments
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by annadane 6y ago
Maybe to you but for those who are uninformed it's valuable
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by annadane 6y ago
But acquisitions in the case of FB are used as defensive, kill-our-competition moves. Is that really justifiable?
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Antitrust Suits Challenging Facebook’s Acquisitions Are a Welcome Sight(eff.org)
4 points by annadane 6y ago|0 comments
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by annadane 6y ago
Wasn't this specific story debunked? (Don't shoot me, I'm genuinely asking)
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by annadane 6y ago
Yes, but it's also clear that there's something very funny going on here, rules be damned
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by annadane 6y ago
You're getting downvotes from apologists and shills
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by annadane 6y ago
Why the hell is HN so downvote happy?
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by annadane 6y ago
This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move
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A brief history of Facebook’s ever-changing privacy settings (2018)(medium.com)
1 points by annadane 6y ago|0 comments
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by annadane 6y ago
Facebook: The Inside Story notes that Zuckerberg didn't want to go public because then there would be a pressure to monetize more
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by annadane 6y ago
I'm 99% certain the person you're replying to is kidding. I thought it was funny
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by annadane 6y ago
I gotta say, it always makes me furious whenever I see "Facebook and Instagram". Not because of the person writing the comment (you in this case) but because of the basic feeling I have that they SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED to buy up al
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by annadane 6y ago
Something that strikes me about FreeBSD is you need a certain amount of knowledge going in. On Linux, you can set up a desktop pretty easily. Then you can find out more advanced stuff later on. BSD just dumps you into a shell. You have to

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