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Re:Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and Wh... by stordoff on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @09:36PM (#17243741)
It's basically turning your friends' messages into clickbait. I got one recently that was "Someone just flagged me down at a..." and it just feels like a really insidious way to get you to go to Facebook and read the rest. It doesn't even show that much in the actual email, only in the Gmail preview - it's just a link to Facebook (the text is set to "color:#FFFFFF;display:none !important;font-size:1px;").
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Re:Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and Wh... by tripzilch on Thursday June 07, 2018 @10:21AM (#17255943)
> the text is set to "color:#FFFFFF;display:none !important;font-size:1px;"

Something that nearly any other company would have been banished to the spambox for.

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