> It will apparently continue to be available for Android users. That's another interesting move.
Google really needs to clean up the Play Store of all sorts of malwares and spywares.
Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS
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#52I really hope people remember all the ways Facebook is being scummy for when Zuckerberg decides to enter politics. We don't need more people like him in government.
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#53So. Onavo was taken down and repackaged as Facebook Research. And now that has been taken down too. Wonder what it will reappear as next?
Facebook NotSpywareWePromise
Followed by a
"We totally apologize for making this mistake, which is totally on me and we promise to clean up our act and behave better in the future and we're sorry if you feel offended"
apology by Mr. Zuckerberg a few month later.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where does it say that?
It's still on android. At least this reveals that the move is not about the users.
They probably took it down because as the original app it violated the App Store’s guidelines on data collection. But they have not been forced.
The apple gate keeping here is terrible.
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#56As context the HN submission of the techcrunch article, for those who missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19031055 . Strangely just vanished from the top position.
“Vanished”? It’s still in the top 15 as I comment here.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where does it say that?
It might as well be so. The we’re using an enterprise distribution method which only allows distribution to company employees. This is grounds for account revocation. (Not their AppStore account, their enterprise account. )
It might or it might be just the same way it was with the other app where Facebook took it down. Just as it says in the actual article...
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#58So. Onavo was taken down and repackaged as Facebook Research. And now that has been taken down too. Wonder what it will reappear as next?
Part of the Facebook app.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
What Facebook, politicians, and many others fail to understand is that there's a difference between legal and morally right. Facebook makes it exceedingly easy for people to hate them, while technically doing nothing wrong. Well sometimes they break the law, but then Zuckerberg just says he's sorry and we all move on. It's getting tiresome to watch our industry behave recklessly in the pursuit of ad revenue and the p…
What you fail to understand is that the average layman doesn't care about data collection and ad tech. If it pisses you off that people don't care about the same things you do, welcome to politics.
Can't Facebook at least pay for effective reputation management?
All those new accounts accusing critics of hating Facebook are really rather ineffective.
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#60Remember when putting a picture of yourself on the internet or even using your real name was controversial? The old generation warned not to do it, ever! But teens did it widely and profusely. Now the new controversy is data. Don't ever sell your data! Don't give up your data! But teens are doing it widely and profusely. At some point you just have to accept that new people will be born and will have new ideas and ju…
This is the slow break down of society. Let's not cheer that on, shall we.