Also - you could say the same and yet much much more about Google.
Google represents 10x the threat of FB because we all use it and essentially need it - and it's more broadly deployed.
FB is just FB. Use it or not.
FB can 'have it's cake and eat it'.
There's nothing wrong with using learned user behaviours to place some ads. There are reasonably narrow contexts in which privacy really isn't invaded, there's no harm really.
Where it 'gets bad' is when they follow you across the internet (like Google does ...), or when they use 'nasty algs' for interactivity (I don't think this is as bad as it seems).
Google is reading all your email and knows every search you ever made, I find that far more invasive.
FB has overstepped their bounds but there's no reason the can't go back in.
As far as 'anti trust' - it makes very little difference that FB owns WhatsApp and Insta. Break them up - very little will change.
The 'anti trust' issue is almost entirely with Google and Apple.
Google uses their search to promote their own products over others, rips off content for their search summaries, and uses Chrome and Android as a kind of 'market dumping' to ensure Search success.
Apple's 'App Store Only' rule for content distribution is questionable.
Also - you could say the same and yet much much more about Google.
Google represents 10x the threat of FB because we all use it and essentially need it - and it's more broadly deployed.
FB is just FB. Use it or not.
FB can 'have it's cake and eat it'.
There's nothing wrong with using learned user behaviours to place some ads. There are reasonably narrow contexts in which privacy really isn't invaded, there's no harm really.
Where it 'gets bad' is when they follow you across the internet (like Google does ...), or when they use 'nasty algs' for interactivity (I don't think this is as bad as it seems).
Google is reading all your email and knows every search you ever made, I find that far more invasive.
FB has overstepped their bounds but there's no reason the can't go back in.
As far as 'anti trust' - it makes very little difference that FB owns WhatsApp and Insta. Break them up - very little will change.
The 'anti trust' issue is almost entirely with Google and Apple.
Google uses their search to promote their own products over others, rips off content for their search summaries, and uses Chrome and Android as a kind of 'market dumping' to ensure Search success.
Apple's 'App Store Only' rule for content distribution is questionable.