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Re:Facebook sues Namecheap by drKarl on Friday March 06, 2020 @03:45AM (#22501979)
I agree with everything you said, just a minor comment... Facebook users are not Facebook customers, they are the product. Facebook customers are all the companies which pay Facebook for advertisement.
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Re:Facebook sues Namecheap by KarlKemp on Friday March 06, 2020 @04:23AM (#22502156)
This tired cliché is annoying enough when people use it in situation where it arguably has some explanatory power—a complaint about FB’s customer service, say.

It adds absolutely nothing to this discussion. Facebook has an interest in retaining users that is indistinguishable here from an interest to retain customers.

I struggle to come up with reasons that motivate the incessant regurgitation of memes such as this in online discussions. Sure, I chuckled the first time I saw it because it was novel and somewhat contrarian. But after the hundredth time it feels more like bad ML picking up on the wrong keywords.

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Re:Facebook sues Namecheap by sumedh on Friday March 06, 2020 @09:16AM (#22503706)
> Facebook customers are all the companies which pay Facebook for advertisement.

I dont know about FB but there are companies who will sell the data of their paying customers as well.

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