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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by Misdicorl on Friday February 22, 2019 @11:23AM (#19226558)
I think the goal would be to get a sufficient percentage of the entire internet to generate noise, without having to be aware of it.

In a world where Firefox and Safari were the major internet browsers, this wouldn't actually be that hard since it could be built into those browsers directly and would already align pretty nicely with their respective parent company ethos

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by pixl97 on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:34PM (#19227201)
"You cannot log onto Facebook with this web browser, please use Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge to continue" --FB
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by Misdicorl on Friday February 22, 2019 @09:41PM (#19231256)
Circling back again, the more likely warpath FB would pursue is making FB work very poorly on non-cooperative browsers and excellently on cooperative ones.

Then users will blame the browser for being trash rather than FB.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by Misdicorl on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:42PM (#19227866)
Yes, that is one potential countermeasure. I wonder if it would be effective or if it would be the beginning of the end for fb.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by pixl97 on Friday February 22, 2019 @02:00PM (#19228058)
>In 2015, it is expected that 70.1 percent of Facebook users worldwide will access the social network through their mobile phone.

What I don't know if that means browser or App. Not effective at all if most people use the app.

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