Facebook Requires Social Fixer Browser Extension to Remove Features • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook Requires Social Fixer Browser Extension to Remove Features

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Post by RexRollman » Mon, Oct 07, 2013, 9:53 PM UTC

bookface wrote: post #63

RexRollman wrote: post #49

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"Facebook gets its revenue from ads" It is interesting to think about today's big tech companies and how they make a majority of their money. Facebook, Google, and Twitter = advertising. Microsoft = software. Apple = hardware. Of the three companies who make most of their money from advertising, Twitter seems to be the most ethical, although going public might change that (Facebook is creating profiles of non-Faceboo…

What makes you believe that Twitter isn't doing that? If you're willing to speculate that Google is creating "shadow profiles", why not Twitter?

They may well be doing it, but at this time, I have heard nothing to suggest it. Google, however, is getting shadier by the minute.

Re: Facebook Requires Social Fixer Browser Extension to Remove Features

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Post by sseveran » Mon, Oct 07, 2013, 11:33 PM UTC

MichaelApproved wrote: post #89

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I actually took Facebook up on this option last fall. I have not missed facebook nor will I be back. I no longer have to worry about them tampering with my privacy like they did so many times. My life is definitely no worse not having a facebook account.

I'm curious about people like you who feel this way. I understand you don't miss it or see value in Facebook but can you understand that other people see value in Facebook and that it enriches their social life?

Sure. I don't feel the need to impose my lack of facebook on anyone else. I do mind when people act shocked when facebook throws its weight around to get what it wants. Its a walled garden in the fullest sense.

Re: Facebook Requires Social Fixer Browser Extension to Remove Features

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Post by MichaelApproved » Tue, Oct 08, 2013, 2:08 AM UTC

sseveran wrote: post #102

MichaelApproved wrote: post #89

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I'm curious about people like you who feel this way. I understand you don't miss it or see value in Facebook but can you understand that other people see value in Facebook and that it enriches their social life?

Sure. I don't feel the need to impose my lack of facebook on anyone else. I do mind when people act shocked when facebook throws its weight around to get what it wants. Its a walled garden in the fullest sense.

Thanks for the reply.

I agree. At first, I got shocked when sites like FB and Twitter would reverse course from a developer friendly environment to a locked down one but now it's just an extension of the same story. FB doesn't care about your business, it cares about it's own business.