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Oh really? Now you invite researchers instead of shutting down legitimate projects to investigate your algorithms?

Zuckerberg is a problem. He exists only to buy out everyone else and will not stop until everybody is destroyed

Stop. Stop it. This is such an unproductive reply

And predictably Zuck went after it to try to kill it. Quel surprise. :|

Using a spyware VPN called Onavo might not be the same thing as 'onto something'

The problem is it's never been his Kool Aid. He stole the Kool Aid from multiple other people and is pretending like he invented the concept (yes people will now argue you can't steal the 'concept' of Kool Aid, and it's about execution; but my point stands, other people can't borrow the concept if one person pulls the rug out from everyone else) of Kool Aid

How do you keep doing this? How do you pop up in every thread? :D

I think the problem is I don't waste enough time on the internet (where 'waste' is a loaded word) - there's so much on there and yet I'm relegated to the same 5 or 10 pages I always go to

Because Whatsapp was bought to eliminate the competition. There is no quality control, it's by design

They absolutely do. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/mark-zuckerberg...

Both. It's Facebook. It's Zuckerberg in charge.

It's actually really hard to remember which is which, isn't it? lol. I get confused all the time

Hello, fellow Tridactyl user :D

Thanks for the downvotes, appreciate it. I thought it was funny but apparently people have a stick up their ass

"We'll send them AMD"

"Ammunition of Mass Destruction?"

"No..."

It's incredibly clear they're only doing the Meta/Metaverse thing to a) try to avoid regulatory scrutiny (so they think; this will have the opposite effect of what they intend) b) distract the public from the toxic Facebook brand c) both (my money is on c). Zuckerberg is never ever to be trusted with anything given his history - and it shows.

He won a lottery from stealing other people's ideas

When you consider that Zuckerberg lies all the time about everything, it makes sense

Abandon ship

Yeah, thank Getty for that one

It was a joke, lighten up

Added rocket engines to the base

NO.

Snakes... on every plane!

Much worse than last time.

Just to clarify - ublock origin is going to continue working the same way... right?

Considering Facebook directly lied about the acquisition of Whatsapp I imagine an antitrust lawsuit coming their way which forces them to divest that property

> Yes, if you use Facebook for 30 minutes a day, you probably won't miss anything. But if you use Facebook less often than that (like an hour a week, or once a month)

Which I'm sure is complete coincidence and not at all intended to draw you into using Facebook every second of every hour of every day

One reason the Metaverse bothers me so much is a) because it's related to the company in general calling itself Meta, which itself is most likely a smokescreen to distract from the company's negative image and b) because it includes all the properties Zuckerberg has directly lied about and made worse - notice how the Instagram people left after conflicts with Zuckerberg, how Whatsapp users are forced into data sharing with Facebook, how suddenly you need a Facebook for the Oculus - if Meta/Metaverse was a conglomeration of home grown properties, in-house, or at worst previously competitive products that neverthelss they did a good job with and fostered to grow, and weren't annoying to use, and didn't pull bait and switch - why, sure, this Metaverse thing might seem like a pretty neat idea. As it stands, not only is Zuckerberg's vision of a utopia "copy and kill everyone else" but Meta/Metaverse is directly using basically stolen properties ("let's buy up these guys to destroy the competition")

> I can't remember who it was - maybe Stratechery - that theorized that Zuckerberg thanks to his experience running Facebook had a really good intuition for when Social media where going to go far and thus was able to make deals that at first looked wildly overpriced but in the end seemed to be a steal.

It kind of helps when you use a VPN called Onavo to spy on what apps people are using...

Worked is debatable - sure, it worked for them, but they made those platforms worse for consumers