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Re:Facebook loses users for the first time by rvz on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @09:15PM (#30187588)
Exactly. It is no different to the rest of them. This game is simply one tyrant (TikTok) dethroning another (Meta) and all of them make money out of our personal data.

Facebook (the social network) was known to be in decline for years. The real attention is on Instagram and WhatsApp are still adding users. I wouldn't rush to rule them out yet over this.

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Re:Facebook loses users for the first time by pjerem on Thursday February 03, 2022 @01:04AM (#30189226)
At least I have the feeling that newcomers like TikTok don’t have this "embrace the web" thing that Facebook had during a decade with embedded tracking scripts everywhere on any website.

I feel like TikTok is more closed and that I don’t have a shadow profile on it like Facebook did.

But it’s also because the web (especially the browsers and mobile OS) learnt its lessons.

OTOH, it also means that newcomers will have to make even more efforts to to "compete" with the historical open web which can create even more situations of information disappearing from the open web.

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