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by nexthash 1974 days ago
I believe the more apt comparison is to the recent changes made to WhatsApp's privacy policy to integrate it closer to Facebook. The difficulty of moving to a different platform is relatively lower than getting rid of a social media network like Facebook (lower network effect, overlapping functionality with other offerings), which means a large hiccup like this can easily trigger mass migration to other brokerages.