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Comment by traskjd | Hacker News Reader

They're so user hostile that they don't even allow you to copy and paste pictures. You MUST save them, giving them access.

Honestly, I have no idea how one company can be so horrible. It's like they read the site about Dark Patterns and asked themselves: What if we combined them ALL?

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Have you read anything from or about Zuck? Remember when he said that everyone around him is sheep? And then there was a brief period of time when everyone thought he grew up? And then turns out he didn’t. Oops.

Why would he? The way he does things is very clearly working, as he is one of the most successful people on Earth by typical measurements. Everything he has done has been validated as “the right thing” by the market.

Sorry for getting all political on this but we need to stop associating success only with financial wealth.

He is successful at amassing billions of dollars. From my point of view, his success in the grand scheme of things is below zero. His actions have degraded quality of life and hurt future generations.

They don’t even let you copy text! We’re losing the most basic computing affordances that we’ve taken for granted over the past half century.

That's precisely why, instead of an app, I have a browser shortcut on my home screen for Twitter/reddit (I don't use Facebook on my phone). I can select the text and do with it what I please, with no artificial restrictions.

I can’t even copy text on Facebook.com with iOS Safari.

Yep, this is infuriating when I want to translate something not in English.

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