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Re:Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep... by aardvarkr on Thursday March 28, 2024 @10:12PM (#39859857)
When you give your mail client credentials to read your email , would you not expect your client to be able to read your mail?

On Android, when you give a third party client permission to receive SMS, you don’t expect it to have access to your SMS?

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Re:Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep... by k8svet on Thursday March 28, 2024 @11:14PM (#39860284)
Jesus Christ, do you also work for Facebook? An LLM could generate a more coherent, logical defense than that.

Is Netflix a secret Facebook client that I don't know about? Lmao, is this a serious comment I'm replying to?

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Re:Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep... by rezonant on Thursday March 28, 2024 @11:53PM (#39860524)
> Is Netflix a secret Facebook client that I don't know about? Lmao, is this a serious comment I'm replying to?

Yes, in fact, that's what the feature was. You could send a movie recommendation via Facebook within Netflix, and then continue the conversation with that friend, still in the Netflix app.

It's a dumb idea for all of the obvious reasons that its in Netfix' best interest to hoover up the data, but that's why it doesn't exist anymore and hasn't existed for years.

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