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Finally, there’s Facebook, up there in the top right corner: maximum surveillance, maximum control. It’s a company that combines Google's insatiable appetite for your private data with Apple’s iron-fisted control over how you use its service. The worst of all possible worlds. What's more, Facebook has become the template for other tech giants, like TikTok. In fact, our 2x2 surveillance/ control grid needs to get a lot bigger to accommodate TikTok, because it’s so far off to the top right that I've had to put it on the top right corner of the inside back cover of this book to get the scale right ... go ahead and check! :

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Finally, there’s Facebook, up there in the top right corner: maximum surveillance, maximum control. It’s a company that combines Google's insatiable appetite for your private data with Apple’s iron-fisted control over how you use its service. The worst of all possible worlds. What's more, Facebook has become the template for other tech giants, like TikTok. In fact, our 2x2 surveillance/ control grid needs to get a lot bigger to accommodate TikTok, because it’s so far off to the top right that I've had to put it on the top right corner of the inside back cover of this book to get the scale right ... go ahead and check! :
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Kudra :maybe_verified: (kudra@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 03:46:58 JST Kudra :maybe_verified:

@bugwhisperer great work! I'm doing things the opposite way around, got all my websites and domains out of the US and now working on #deGoogling.
Was never in the #Facebook ecosystem, could see how poisoned it was from the beginning, as @pluralistic put it in his book "The Internet Con":
"Finally, there’s Facebook, up there in the top right corner: maximum surveillance, maximum control. It’s a company that combines Google's insatiable appetite for your private data with Apple’s iron-fisted control over how you use its service. The worst of all possible worlds."
Also: AWS? I hope that's only a stepping stone, they are just as shitty as the others.

In conversation about a month ago from aus.social permalink