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Re:Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Wor... by kumarvvr on Friday September 24, 2021 @05:34AM (#28640284)
Everything points to the fact that keeping users in the dark is their business model.

Which, makes sense. The steady erosion of any control, the tiny sparks of "settings" to assuage some privacy issue brought out in the open, the behavior of Zuck in the Congress. It is amply clear that for FB to make money, it's users should have no choice.

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Re:Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Wor... by csilverman on Friday September 24, 2021 @11:30AM (#28643761)
I think that's what offends me most about Facebook's whole ham-fisted victim routine. They adopted a business model that was dumbfoundingly, arrogantly unsustainable: trying to fool all of the people all of the time.

Even the smartest, most devious minds in tech should have realized that that gravy train had a limit.

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