Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect privacy

Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by cwhiz on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:56AM (#24292326)

I don’t think ads are a necessary evil at all. Facebook and Google came along and ruined the market for paid services. Prior to that the market was healthy and operated just fine.

If we undo the damage caused by FB and Google we can go back to a healthy market where people pay for things with money instead of their privacy.

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Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by iso1210 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:26AM (#24292546)

Microsoft put Netscape and the concept of paying for a browser out of business long before FB and Google

Hotmail started the war on people paying for email clients long before gmail

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Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by cwhiz on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:47AM (#24292689)

MS certainly got the ball rolling with their anticompetitive behavior. But it was not until Facebook and Google created their spyware empires that it became essentially impossible to create paid content on the internet. Now the entire internet economy is broken.

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Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by jefftk on Thursday August 27, 2020 @08:08AM (#24292829)

> essentially impossible to create paid content on the internet

Really? I see far more paywalls now than I did 5-10y ago

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Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by iso1210 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @09:35AM (#24293519)

I don't recall much paid content per-se from 2000, when Yahoo ruled the roost. Now I have multiple subscription services which exist only because of the internet

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