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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by FalconSensei on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:11PM (#25675735)
> This "just stop using it" attitude you always get on Hacker News and reddit about facebook and their various messaging platforms baffles me.

Unfortunately, seems that for many people on HN, HN is almost all their online social interaction, + tech people on signal/mastodon. Some don't seem to understand the concept of having family and friends who are not tech-savy (or even hate tech). Or understand the concept of social capital.

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by TheRealSteel on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:56PM (#25676416)
Yeah. It's not that I don't believe those people, it's just that I don't think they should act like it's a real option for everybody.
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