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The latest from Josh Constine: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/06/facebook-living-room/

"Perhaps this will just be more lip service in a time of PR crisis for Facebook."

"Now Facebook might finally see the dollar signs within privacy."

Shamefully opinionated comments again from Josh.

Traditional news media gave the election to Hillary. And post-election they found it convenient to blame it all on Facebook.

Facebook certainly isn't influential enough to swing 20 points of an entire US Prez election all on its own (It obviously contribute though)

I have huge huge grips with tech news reporting. NYT/WaPo are reasonably decent usually. You should look at how unbalanced recent tech articles are:

Look at this horrendous article by Josh Constine: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/28/facebook-research-teens/

> "So 18 percent of research testers were teens. It was only less than 5 percent when Facebook got caught. "

Very very colloquial term plus hugely biased+loaded terms like 'caught' are being used. Even basic Journalistic standards are not being met.

This isn't a new article. That's an opinion piece (and I am not disagreeing with his facts but with how opinionated his presentation is).

There's a difference between "GSW lose to Celtics 129-95" and "Low energy GSW show disinterest in the game and get walloped by Celtics 129-95".

And Josh is one of the more popular tech 'journalists'. So you can imagine how problematic the whole industry is. There's no "news". There's just opinion pieces - all of which are from a single elite SF/NY/LA bubble

Obviously so. If you're into music/movies/arts you should come up with a crappier product. I hope you don't come up with tunes that are addictive and get people hooked to your music.

Same with sports teams: I hope they all play crappy so that people are not hooked onto them.

/s

You hear a lot of "STOP SHOWING ME ADS ON _____. I'LL PAY FOR THIS. STOP TRACKING ME. I'D LOVE A PAID VERSION OF ______"

And every single time I laugh at how much those statements reek of privilege. It's always from people who live in the biggest, richest cities of the country and are usually white+young+have steady incomes.

If Facebook started offering ad-free versions, within a year it would become a website only for the SF/NY/London elite kids.

Imagine if these services were paid: Facebook = $40/month. Whatsapp = $30/mo, Instagram = $30/mo. Youtube = $30/mo. Google Search = $50/mo. Google Maps = $30/mo.

Sure, you're probably rich enough that you can afford a crazy amount to subscribe to every possible website. But the majority of the world cannot - and that's why ads are not just an unnecessary distraction but instead a necessary way to life on the Internet.