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Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return by morpheuskafka on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:26AM (#28786678)
I was really surprised when Facebook added their branding to the splash screen of those apps. I thought the whole point was that no one even knew about it. WhatsApp at least is a little different (no in app ads, no infinite scrolling, at least in theory encrypted messages). But Instagram is literally just another incarnation of the exact same business model as FB with slightly different features.
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Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return by CursedUrn on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:31AM (#28786751)
I presume they made a big push to integrate Whatsapp/IG and Facebook (on a technical and branding level) to make it harder for anti-trust to break them up later.
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Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return by el_ravager on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:52AM (#28787942)
If they can't be broken up—and they're too big to fail—rolling them up into a utility could be an forgone conclusion.
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