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Title: Once in a blue moon: Facebook is actually right about something Post by: HCK on February 23, 2021, 04:05:12 pm Once in a blue moon: Facebook is actually right about something
<article> <section class="page"> <p>There are few things the Macalope hates more than Facebook.</p><p>Hoof in mouth disease. Showing up to a technology mascots reunion and finding Clippy is already drunk. Just Clippy in general. But high on that list is Facebook.</p><p>At least partly because Facebook is the anti-Apple on several important scales, not the least of which is privacy.</p><p>As you may recall, Facebook had an app that <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/" rel="nofollow">paid teenagers[/url] to let the company have root access to their phones. What could go wrong with that? Probably fine. Just for science. When that got outraged out of existence the company <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/study-from-facebook/" rel="nofollow">then made an app[/url] that just paid adults for the ability to track what apps they use and for how long and to potentially access a bunch of other stuff they said they won’t look at. That app was only on Android, fortunately, because Apple slammed the door on them.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3608970/once-in-a-blue-moon-facebook-is-actually-right-about-something.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Once in a blue moon: Facebook is actually right about something (https://www.macworld.com/article/3608970/once-in-a-blue-moon-facebook-is-actually-right-about-something.html#tk.rss_all) |