Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach

Re:Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite... by csomar on Thursday January 31, 2019 @06:24AM (#19044016)

> "There are now 400 million people who use it every month, and people spend on average over 20 minutes on Watch daily."

Duh. Facebook starts running the videos as soon as you open the Facebook page. If you open a video and watch it, it'll start a new one in 3-4 seconds. Unless they remove these practices, it is not clear how much of that 20 minutes is due to their aggressive behavior.

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Re:Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite... by chillee on Thursday January 31, 2019 @09:44AM (#19045005)

I believe Watch is their separate page for video, and not the autoplay videos that show up as you scroll down your feed. It'd seem pretty surprising that consumers would repeatedly click on that page and get tricked into watching a significant amount of content.

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Re:Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite... by csomar on Thursday January 31, 2019 @10:38AM (#19045473)

If you try to click (because by default it should be "pause") the video the pause it, it'll upsize it and open Facebook watch. Just another trick to annoy you.

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