11–20 of 303 posts
Meanwhile I've switched my family and friend to Signal with great success.
I've done that too. But for some reason, my business communication still happens on WhatsApp. Until that happens Facebook is safe.
Business is already conducted well on email, and if it needs sync chat for larger orgs then Slack steps in, and if it needs personal private sync chat then Signal steps in.
Meanwhile I've switched my family and friend to Signal with great success.
I wonder if they're doing a meh and surveilling me anyway.
Facebook has entirely failed to utilise it - to allow external systems to connect in so that businesses can do business on there. The voice calls are also a disaster.
They've now come along to start messing with the privacy to start selling ads. It is insane that they're able to make such a mess of this. Is there a word for anti-innovation?
Considering that they're linking Facebook ad platform with the chats, and they're forcing this upon everyone, why isn't this covered by the monopoly laws? Most of us paid some money for the app.
Whatsapp is part of facebook, the most data driven of companies. Surely they wrote 10 variations on the 'please accept the new T&C's' screen, and did A/B testing on each, user studies, etc. And they wouldn't have deployed if there was any risk to their business...
Yet it seems the users hate it enough that there is a risk to their business... So what went wrong?
In the book, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism"[1], it talks about the MO for the big tech companies. How they push and often subtly change things slowly. The book provides a number of examples of this. I never expected FB to walk back the privacy change. I even expect their full expectations to be in place in a couple years. It's what they have successfully done in the past. [1] https://bookshop.org/books/the-age-…
They waited 'till the news cycle waned, and then did whatever they pleased anyway. Par for the course ...
I always denied consent to the requests from whatsapp, and it's still working. I wonder if they're doing a meh and surveilling me anyway.