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Re:Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Streng... by qsort on Thursday December 17, 2020 @06:14AM (#25454517)
Super agree. I can't describe that ad in any other way than a sophisticated lie. They are making it look like Apple wants to take away choice from the user when it's exactly the other way around.

They are careful to never mention what the iOS 14 updates are actually about, but a lie by omission is still a lie.

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Re:Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Streng... by bredren on Thursday December 17, 2020 @01:45PM (#25458778)
I call it fundamental dishonesty. Some big problems for team fb:

1. It is difficult to recover from such an obviously dishonest position.

2. Users are supposed to be the customers, not small businesses. If users aren't the customers, they can't receive Facebook as a product "for free."

3. The current business model offers outsized returns because it leverages tech people don't want or don't yet know they don't want.

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