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by mbgerring 1207 days ago
Here’s one: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

Here’s another one: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/every...

Another: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/facebooks-...

Re: “no worse than Apple”: Apple implemented features to make my phone give me less notifications by default when I am driving, at work, or close to going to bed. These features are helpfully turned on by default. Contrast this with Facebook’s design philosophy of increasing the amount of time a user spends staring at their phone at all costs.

Apple’s tracking prevention has put such a huge hole in Facebook’s panopticon-like internet-wide surveillance scheme that it is almost certainly one of the causes of these layoffs. You ask “who wants untargeted ads,” and it turns out, when you give users a choice, the answer is “most people, actually.”

There is no rational basis for saying that Facebook is “no worse than Apple.” Facebook is an actively malign force in society, worldwide, and we would all be better off if they shut down completely.
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megaman8 1205 days ago
here are the reasons I hate apple more than facebook: 1. they force developers to buy mac os x to work on their platform 2. their app store monopoly is extremely hostile towards developers and thus democracy 3. they force me to enter my financial information when I sign up with them 4. they won't allow me to use their products without an apple account which means I need yet another password to sign in 5. they won't even allow me to download apps without signing into my apple account. 6. the whole apple ecosystem kinda locks you in. 7. planned obsolescence, which I really hate.

On the other hand for facebook. I can just ignore it completely for months on end and easily block all my notifications or emails from it. or block them one by one if I choose. if i dont like the feed, then I just don't spend time on it. nothing about facebook isn't easily circumvented whereas apple has a death grip on you, as long as you need to use it's products.

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