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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by mikeash on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:54AM (#20471093)
What is the difference between “people don’t care about privacy” and “people value Facebook highly, wouldn’t pay much of anything for an ad-free, privacy conscious version of Facebook, and are making a conscious assessment that their privacy is less valuable than the service,” other than the additional detail?

It seems to me that you’re complaining about infantilizing people’s choices while simultaneously telling us that, yes, people indeed don’t care about privacy very much.

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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by gridlockd on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:09PM (#20471252)
The difference between "I don't care at all" and "I'm making a trade-off" is that in the former case no one is giving up something for nothing.

There is no such thing as an "ad-free, privacy conscious" version of Facebook. If Facebook offered such a product, we'd have a rough idea about what privacy is worth to people in terms of money. All the Facebook "alternatives" are not Facebook.

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