Comment on Meta faces permanent ban on targeted ads across Europe

WaxedWookie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• nicetriangle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wish they would. It's fucking ridiculous that so much of Europe is apparently just ok with using a Meta product for the defacto texting platform (WhatsApp).

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Eh, it’s not like we started using it because it was Meta’s. They bought it when it was already popular, and switching everyone to something else is difficult.

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    • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, WhatsApp was ported to basically every single platform that was relevant in 2009-2010 when it launched: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, Series 40 and Windows Phone. Supporting Blackberry and Nokia mobile OS which were huge at the time as well as the new smartphone OS’s was genius.

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      • lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You left out webOS! Oh…

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    • nicetriangle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sure I understand the reasons why it's this way, but it doesn't make it a good idea.

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  • TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh, it’s Messenger in Hungary. Not that it’s any better, just saying.

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    • nicetriangle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean that’s basically the same difference

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      • IndefiniteBen@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But Messenger has always been Facebook, so those users “chose” a Facebook product. WhatsApp users mostly signed up before Facebook bought them (getting those users is why Facebook bought WhatsApp).

        The choice to use a Facebook product was made for existing WhatsApp users by the sale. You can personally choose a different service, but then you also have to get all your contacts to make the same choice.

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      • TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That is what I said, yes.

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  • realharo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Better than the US, at least you are not forced to buy a specific device.

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I use Android and I exchange text messages with iPhone users all the time. They don’t use iMessage with me because my friends aren’t assholes.

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    • nicetriangle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re not forced to buy a specific device there. They all text each other fine. You just don’t get fancy iMessage features if you’re on Android.

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      • realharo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “Fancy” features like group chats, or sending pictures that don’t look like ass?

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      • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You get all those features, just not with iPhone snobs who refuse to use acting but iMessage.

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  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Meta is the cancer of the internet. The sooner they leave the better.

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hate that Meta bought but I have to admit it is the best messaging app I have ever used for the last 10 years.

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• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Watch them cry foul, threaten to pull out

  Ofc. But childish maneuvers are generally less effective in Europe where authorities are still authorities and not just the revenge actors with the bigger guns.

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  • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep - and they’re too big a market to abandon, meaning they’ll just roll over in the end.

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