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Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by Cthulhu_ on Thursday August 27, 2020 @05:43AM (#24291789)
I'm actually ok with corporate self-interest if it benefits the consumers and their privacy.

I mean Google (the ad company) spent a lot of R&D money into making browsers and the internet faster. For me it means the internet is faster, for them they get more ad impressions and goodwill. Win-win, although they ballsed up the goodwill part.

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Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by trasz on Thursday August 27, 2020 @08:42AM (#24293059)
An average web site isn’t any faster than it was 10 or 20 years ago (unless you still had a modem back then).

Overall the Web is in much worse place, with decentralized hyperdocuments replaced with centralized application server model. FB and Google turned internet into AOL.

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Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by rightbyte on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:18AM (#24292058)
They spent alot of money to make Javascript faster, so they could push apps from being local to being dumb terminals. Probably to ensure espionage and making the users reliant on big corp?
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