[Barrin92]

Are people capable of enough nuance to distinguish between issues that large tech firms are likely trustworthy on and issues that they aren't?

When they stand to make billions from breaking my trust I'm sceptical. When they stand to make a penny and ruin their entire product, then no I' not.

The problem in question here, that rogue developers sell out their product to third parties, is not an issue that Facebook, Google etc have. They have every incentive to keep their software secure.

[krageon]

A betrayal of trust will not "ruin their entire product", we've already seen that it won't (no matter the scale). Believing a small betrayal to be worse than a big one is your right, but that doesn't mean it isn't naive.

[vmception]

Your whole premise is based on a very arbitrarily low value of collecting your plain text data? From a company that is a machine built for monetizing this specific thing? And that they wont because their users care about trust too much, users of Facebook products but specifically whatsapp? And you think the rest of us arent compartmentalizing our issues with that company enough?

this is.... I’m speechless, I ran out of words for this absurdity