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Re:Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning... by daveguy on Friday December 02, 2016 @01:43PM (#13091127)
And you think the B.S. detector was blocked quickly. There would be a pure vacuum left in the internet due to the quickness with which a third party remover would disappear.

I expect Facebook is saturated and or declining in the US due to excess BS. A few years ago it was rare that I would find a "fb free" person. Now it is much more common (maybe as much my age group as fb though).

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Re:Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning... by notadoc on Friday December 02, 2016 @01:47PM (#13091170)
Pretty sure the only reason most people I know use Facebook is for Tinder.
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Re:Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning... by RickS on Friday December 02, 2016 @02:03PM (#13091308)
This is funny, because the only reason tinder values a facebook login is if users were robust facebook users pre-tinder (and thus easily verifiable as real people), so it's ultimately all for naught.
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Re:Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning... by quickquicker on Friday December 02, 2016 @02:20PM (#13091447)
Same here. Hadn't been active on it for years, basically since college.
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