The notifications are also dark-pattern hard to manage. If you don't want a type, you have to wait to receive an example of it to unsubscribe. Their central notification page only allows you to re-enable particular notifications, but give no way to disable them individually.
Facebook is a terrible product that can't die fast enough.
For the sake of humankind, I'd rephrase it as "Facebook is a terrible company that can't die fast enough."
If you try and deactivate, there’s a horrible series of hoops to jump through which just make the service feel so desperate.
If you minimize your usage, you get flooded with desperate emails trying to convince you to login.
If you’ve stepped away out of fear it’s becoming a low-grade attention merchant full of bad practices, these tactics just reinforce the idea that you really really are doing the right thing backing away.
In a weird way Facebook ended up conditioning me to avoid using it.
So now FB has taken to emailing me complaining that they are missing me and that I should log in.
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WAYNE: I don't own A gun let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack. STACEY: You know Wayne if you're not careful you're gonna lose me.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15222936
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Most of that works fine, sometimes some shitty websites are on AWS or GCP or load JS frameworks from their CDNs, but the worst is:
You can't connect from Android to their WiFi anymore.
Android pings a Google server, if it can't open a connection, it immediately disconnects. In Android 8.1, there's no way around that anymore. You can try every setting in the WiFi settings, and it won't change a thing.
Sometimes I do want to connect to a local network without internet.
'My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.'
This is false. My nan has an iPad she basically only uses for Facebook, and her email is unusable because she has thousands of messages from Facebook. I have no idea why they send thousands of emails to somebody who logs in every day and never ever opens one of their emails but they do.