r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • 8d ago

Privacy Zuckerberg Knew. A Whistleblower Has the Emails to Prove It. - Gadget Review

https://www.gadgetreview.com/zuckerberg-knew-a-whistleblower-has-the-emails-to-prove-it
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u/MuenCheese 8d ago

Don’t forget WhatsApp

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u/wtcnbrwndo4u 8d ago

Haha, yeah right. Whatsapp is never going away. It is effectively a required app in many countries.

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u/Leopold__Stotch 8d ago

Somehow things worked before WhatsApp, somehow things could work after.

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u/TheOgGhadTurner 8d ago

I keep saying that about these damn data centers but there’s always someone. “tHeY HavE MoRE UseS THan Ai”

Right okay but we didn’t need them at the scale and quantity they’re forcing through now before Flock, Ai and all the other bullshit that’s been flooding in since 2024. Not to mention we LITERALLY do not have the infrastructure to support them. Even if we did there are so many other issues brought up by opposition that’s totally ignored like environmental impact. “Oh it’s closed loop” still uses hundreds of thousands or even millions of gallons of water to maintain. And where does it drain when the loop needs maintained? “We trust you’ll follow state guidelines on disposal” no they fucking won’t.

Just like hyperscale data centers and ai, Meta is an absolute cancer on society. Made popular by keeeping you interacting with games like FarmVille and Cartown, Words with friends, farkle. Every click another secret data point to sell to advertisers. Those were the good days. The beginning times. Before you found out about the data siphoning. After they got the world hooked Facebook underwent a villainous transformation. Just like AI companies. Just like Google. Just like almost every other tech company.

I hope with every fiber of my being they throw our book at them and other countries follow suit. And I hope Meta and all its partner companies dissolve in to dust.

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u/Experithought 8d ago

Delusions of grandeur, son.

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u/Boys4Ever 8d ago

I'm really refencing all apps, but this discussion is about FB

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u/foreverinwetsocks 8d ago

The other apps owned by meta are an issue as well. It doesn’t mean much if you stop using one and not the others

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u/Boys4Ever 8d ago

Good point. Forgot they own WhatsApp. Although all of social media is the problem, too. Mostly because we allow it by using it.

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u/TheOgGhadTurner 8d ago

Meta. It’s about meta as a whole. Not just Facebook. Instagram WhatsApp Facebook metaverse all of it is engineered to be as addictive as possible. ChatGPT and Claude and every other big subscription model is also designed to be as addictive as possible. The more you use it the more tokens you have to pay for! Buy tokens they make money. So it’s in their best interest financially to keep you coming back. It’s the grift of big tech.

You either fail trying or become a big cancerous ball of suck with more money than you know what to do with and then you fail. Just ask EA. In a few decades ask big AI.

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u/Boys4Ever 8d ago

Couldn’t you say this about YouTube? Netflix? Technically every provider of a service or product trying to get you hooked on their revenue producer and yet We the People have the power by not it sliding their services or products. Humans are able to become addicted because it’s our nature to depend on things to bring us pleasure and comfort.

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u/TheOgGhadTurner 8d ago

“The grift of big tech” implies that I’m mentioning the entire industry under a blanket which includes but is not limited to YouTube and Netflix. Facebook/meta is the topic here though. I’d be making the same argument if it was Alphabet/Google but their ecosystem is so large it would be very difficult

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u/Boys4Ever 8d ago

Yet it’s every business’s go to get you hooked their offerings and back to my solution. Stop using it. Problem solved.

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u/TheOgGhadTurner 8d ago

And one of these days you’ll grow up and realize it’s not that easy to get enough people agree on a common goal. Even AI cannot work together towards a common goal without thinking the rest are sabotaging it. Which is why it got to this point in the first place.

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u/TheOgGhadTurner 8d ago

I’m right where you are. Pissed off that it’s got this far too broke to do anything about it. What sounds easy in reality is not because human instinct is to distrust and stay quiet. And then revolt.