Comment on Meta faces permanent ban on targeted ads across Europe

• 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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