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I don't see how breaking up Facebook changes the fact that companies are financially incentivized to track and sell as much information on their customers as possible. Whether a monopoly or a collection of small companies, people follow incentives.

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That and one can't help notice the irony that on all these articles they're still trying to load the Facebook trackers in addition to the others (not to beat a dead horse).

> That and one can't help notice the irony that on all these articles they're still trying to load the Facebook trackers in addition to the others

There's no irony here, just the fact that the author doesn't manage or control the website team that put the trackers there.

Agreed, I wish governments would ban something like diamonds in wedding rings instead. Like Facebook, we don't need diamonds to survive. Diamonds have been a the cause of much conflict in Africa.

I wish governments would ban weddings. We don’t need weddings to survive and they cause so many conflicts around the world.

I should have been more specific. I was refering DeBeers through advertising created the myth that diamonds are a girl's best friend. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/ho...

Oh, and religion, the cause of most problems per person on any continent!

And honestly one larger company with a set of privacy controls would be a lot easier for users to manage than dozens of smaller sites with their own settings.

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