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> Zuckerberg’s profile doesn’t show a button to add him as a friend on desktop, and the button is grayed out and disabled on mobile. Of course he has special rules for himself. Fun fact: you cannot block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. It just won't let you.
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/mike-myers...
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That’s because you misunderstand the intent of this pile-on. The intent is to ensure full compliance in 2020 elections.
> The intent is to ensure full compliance in 2020 elections. I don't see how these actions help Facebook be compliant in any way.
> Zuckerberg’s profile doesn’t show a button to add him as a friend on desktop, and the button is grayed out and disabled on mobile. Of course he has special rules for himself. Fun fact: you cannot block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. It just won't let you.
> Fun fact: you cannot block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. It just won't let you. This was fixed months ago (and was a technical problem that affected anyone blocked by many thousands of people, not just him). It wasn't intended.
We have been hearing the "it's a bug" a lot lately from Facebook.
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On the contrary, everyone's willingness to accept this kind of behavior as normal indicates how far the Overton window has moved when it comes to the trustworthiness of our digital services. We need a collective effort to shift things back where they belong.
I disagree, privacy-conscious people have been warning that Facebook has been doing these things since forever, so people (especially here on HN) can't claim that they didn't know these things were going on. This is just the same old story: people being upset about the consequences of what they were warned about many many times.
> Zuckerberg’s profile doesn’t show a button to add him as a friend on desktop, and the button is grayed out and disabled on mobile. Of course he has special rules for himself. Fun fact: you cannot block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. It just won't let you.
> Fun fact: you cannot block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. It just won't let you. This was fixed months ago (and was a technical problem that affected anyone blocked by many thousands of people, not just him). It wasn't intended.
I think it's clear from nearly a decade's worth of Facebook's trysts with privacy issues that it is a company that doesn't have a fundamental stance that's in favor of user privacy. Over and over again it has either intentionally built features that disregard privacy, or put in wrong defaults, or simply brushed off criticisms when others have misused Facebook. At this point we should be asking ourselves why we expect…
I agree that FB has shown time and time again that they consider user privacy a mere road bump. Pervasive dark patterns. I disagree that specific regulatory oversight is needed. Advertising supported websites will always remain loyal to their customers: advertisers. Users are not willing to pay money and requiring a cover charge hurts adoption. What used to be called spyware is now "analytics." People proudly proclai…