[sprafa]

There is a very simple solution to Facebook - demand that they offer compatibility through an API so that other products can offer News Feed products that are seamlessly integrated with the FB Friends. Same as having a universal messaging protocol that's compatible with WhatsApp, and an Instagram API that also allows for compatibility with competitive photo feed products. Basically - open up the social graph and allow for super aggregators with different functionality. That's allowing for competition and breaking down the artificial moat they created, where they have managed to legally extricate their users from their own data property (essentially a form of digital enclosure that violates your right to your data as your private property). They would be destroyed within a year.

Same as windows - you just force them to have an anti-monopoly function.

Alternatively, allow for other ad suppliers to work through their network with a minimal amount of friction. Then you annihilate their revenue.

[justapassenger]

> There is a very simple solution to Facebook - demand that they offer compatibility through an API so that other products can offer News Feed products that are seamlessly integrated with the FB Friends.

Allowing tons of third parties to access all your data. That’s for sure going to solve all the problems (and Facebook had same idea few years ago, that brought you Cambridge Analytica scandal)

[sprafa]

No that’s not true at all but sure.

The problem with Analytica is it was done without your knowledge as a user. If you had volunteered to share tour data with CA how is that is that different from sharing it with Google or Instagram or any other service? We pick services to use in exchange for data everyday.

Why is it different if Facebook has access to your data from any other service? You just pick one.

Anyway this is the only solution and it will eventually be implemented. Either that or the Warren plan.

[justapassenger]

Main issue with CA wasn’t that it got data of users of an app - people have explicitly gave consent for it. They scraped data of your friends, that shared this data with you, and made it a big deal. Users explicitly granted access to data, but their friends didn’t. If you have an open API between networks, how is that different?

User A uses app X and shares data with user B. User B uses app Y. App Y is scraping data. They now have data of both user B (which expressed consent) and user A (which didn’t). It’s exactly like Cambridge Analitica.