Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy
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Re: Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy
#2how much effort did meta put into building a legit competition vs netflix/youtube? it's hard to imagine they couldn't put up a decent competition with max user reach and $
just how great of a moat do yt/netflix have? is Disney the only one mounting a decent fight?
Re: Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy
#3Two things are truly horrifying if this is true. 1. Just how normalized this behavior has become in Silicon Valley upper management circles. 2. That this has not gotten out earlier. Hundreds or thousands of employees at both companies could have reported this to the FTC or elsewhere.
Re: Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy
#4Gonna give it like two weeks before tech bosses posit that users don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their private messages
Re: Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy
#5Gonna give it like two weeks before tech bosses posit that users don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their private messages
Isn't that why they got renamed to "direct" messages basically industry-wide?
Re: Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy
#6I'm not clear whether I understood what the article is claiming. It's clear they claim that Meta shared customer's direct messages with a business partner without notifying the individuals who sent and received the messages. It also SOUNDED to me like the article was claiming they did so AFTER Meta introduced "end-to-end encryption" (which would ALSO mean that they were lying about offering end-to-end encryption). Am I reading that correctly?
Re: Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy
#7Cue the FCC for yet another toothless Meta consent decree.
Re: Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy
#8how much effort did meta put into building a legit competition vs netflix/youtube? it's hard to imagine they couldn't put up a decent competition with max user reach and $ just how great of a moat do yt/netflix have? is Disney the only one mounting a decent fight?
There’s plenty of competition to netflix.
Tiktok is probably the biggest competitor to YT. But it had to come in from short form video angle, because the moat of YT in long form video is probably insurmountable. Its fate remains to be seen.
Re: Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy
#9I'm not clear whether I understood what the article is claiming. It's clear they claim that Meta shared customer's direct messages with a business partner without notifying the individuals who sent and received the messages. It also SOUNDED to me like the article was claiming they did so AFTER Meta introduced "end-to-end encryption" (which would ALSO mean that they were lying about offering end-to-end encryption). Am…
It sounds like it, and if true, is pretty damning.