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by cbmuser 65 days ago
I find it hard to believe that WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram have almost the exact same number of users. This seems to be skewed data.
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Are they not the same users? They're all part of the same org, so it seems likely that accounts for the others are mirrored or auto-created or whatever.
plus meta cheats with all their dark patterns and UI manipulations
Meta cheats.

They're the king of dark patterns that bully ppl into at least signing up for services they don't actually want to use.