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> It's entertaining albeit unfruitful to wonder who could be behind.

I'm not associated with anyone and I'll shit on fb/zuck as long as I can, I doubt I'm the only one. They're so widely criticised because they're the epitome of everything one can possibly hate about modern tech companies.

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Yeah really. In today's polarized political climate, criticizing Facebook is one of the very few things most people agree on!

OK, enough unity, now let's get back to partisan mud-slinging :)

disagree, google is not any better. (IMO google is the worst now, same as microsoft was once upont a time)

Also Amazon is worse than FB towards open or free software

Google has immediate, easily discernible and credible utility to the average person. If I want to find "best recipes for brownies" Google helps me there regardless. I have clear intent to find the best recipes for making brownies.

On Facebook my 82 year old grandma might post an article like "BEST BROWNIE RECIPES FOR SOUTH FLORIDA GRANDMAS" that might hit my feed.

Very different.

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