Post 2133320 by bobstechsite@bobadon.rocks
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(DIR) Post #2123587 by thegibson@hackers.town
2018-12-20T05:06:54Z
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Hold on... one more thing!https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/20/facebook_disaster/BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHhahhajajaj
(DIR) Post #2123678 by smallsees@social.dropbear.xyz
2018-12-20T05:11:52Z
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@TheGibson I know The Social Network had some inaccuracies but then you read stuff like this and go 🤔
(DIR) Post #2124508 by polychrome@cybre.space
2018-12-20T06:09:28Z
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@TheGibson that article made me consider several things:- Facebook most likely found his location by geolocating nearby WiFi MAC addresses. Creepy.- Despite its success the Facebook site *is* a temporary blip on the radar. To survive as a company they have to branch out to other, unrelated industries.Unfortunately (for them) they think like a typical silicon valley tech company and invest in stuff like more social, ads and fringe products like the Oculus.They can't think "traditional".
(DIR) Post #2124549 by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
2018-12-20T06:12:47Z
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@polychrome @thegibson They've bought sooo much though. How many people have you heard say "I'm quitting Facebook and just using WhatsApp" not realizing FB owns WhatsApp, Instagram .. like everything .. They've bought so much of their competition. In a way it's really good, because I don't think another monolith can take them on at this point. I think the future has to be distributed/federated. Unlike when Diaspora was launched, it's easier to run hosted services now.
(DIR) Post #2128467 by bhtooefr@mastodon.social
2018-12-20T10:40:41Z
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@thegibson You know, the thing that pisses me off the most?It's not even Facebook lying about collecting that info and giving it to other companies.It's the whole thing where people have been noticing weird shit going on with ads for the past decade, where everything's creepily accurate, and the whole thing where the whole fucking world was gaslit into "oh, no, it's just a coincidence that you got an ad about something you talked about in an unrelated private conversation"
(DIR) Post #2128599 by nobody@hackers.town
2018-12-20T10:47:00Z
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@bhtooefrI'll bet a lot of us just completely missed that by running adblockers so we were still getting spied on, but not seeing the result.@thegibson
(DIR) Post #2129170 by thegibson@hackers.town
2018-12-20T11:07:31Z
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@nobody @bhtooefr Yeah, like the multiple times I've been shovel brigaded for saying you can test it for yourself in myriad ways...Just like patriot act, and snowden... sometimes we just have to wait for vindication.
(DIR) Post #2129363 by jd@soc.ialis.me
2018-12-20T11:17:06Z
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@TheGibson article^^^'...That is how Sandberg and Zuckerberg are able to rationalize their lies: because they believe the future of the entire company is dependent on maintaining the careful fiction that users have control over their data when they don't...'
(DIR) Post #2130875 by alpha3eards@bear.community
2018-12-20T12:15:45Z
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@bhtooefr @thegibson
(DIR) Post #2132334 by deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-12-20T13:29:37Z
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@nobody> not seeing the resultyup. yet another, different kind of digital divide, between those of us who offered at least a little resistance to the aggregation, and those with a much 'simpler' consumer mindset of the defaults, delegating all these details to Facebook et al@bhtooefr @TheGibson
(DIR) Post #2133320 by bobstechsite@bobadon.rocks
2018-12-20T14:08:46Z
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@djsumdog @polychrome @thegibson Yahoo bought a lot of things too. Now they're owned by AOL, which in turn is owned by Time Warner & Oath.Most friends & family I talk to now say things like "I don't use Facebook much anymore". While that's not the same as deleting their account or the mobile apps, it doesn't bode well for the company's future.
(DIR) Post #2133594 by andi@nuklear.family
2018-12-20T14:19:05Z
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@thegibson That is *such* a good op-ed.
(DIR) Post #2134572 by mwlucas@bsd.network
2018-12-20T15:01:52Z
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@thegibson I almost busted a suture laughing at the headline alone.Sending you the doctor bill.
(DIR) Post #2136409 by thegibson@hackers.town
2018-12-20T16:36:51Z
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@mwlucas Who is bill?What is his specialty?And havent you heard laughter is the best medicine?
(DIR) Post #2151197 by skypage@noagendasocial.com
2018-12-21T02:56:10Z
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@djsumdogI stopped using Whatsapp when I heard Facebag bought them@polychrome @TheGibson
(DIR) Post #2151234 by bigl0af@social.foxfam.club
2018-12-21T02:58:00.168544Z
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@bhtooefrDid anyone really believe that tho? 😁@thegibson