I gotta love that Satan's Spawn Zuckerberg and his criminally invasive company is going down. I've been preaching against Facebook for years. Now Bezos is going down, but he'll be a tougher nut to crack. I wonder if it'll ever come out that TapaTalk is, in fact, the Chinese mining info from us? I think so.
LOL, Facebook isn't going anywhere, neither is Amazon. Now FB might take a huge revenue hit as they tighten up the data protections because that's why advertisers are on there. FB monetizes the traffic and personal stats for targeted adverts. Users can restrict what they see - I kill off ads - and without the personal data to target your demographic, why am I paying you again? I can get a better deal from Google. Some people are leaving but it's spit compared to the overall population of users. Elon pulled their page - but he really didn't know they had a page and didn't care. Also, most of the kids I know including grandkids with phones don't hardly use FB anymore. They do use Instagram (along with SpaceX and a zillion others) - and that is owned by, wait for it...Facebook.
I block all political shares from friend - both sides. If it says any of the trigger words (non inclusive) gun-Hillary-Obama-Trump-Fox LOL, boom - gone. I also break tags to same. I see lots of hot rods, kids, puppies, cats, food and little BS. Nice. People on FB don't want your facts, some just push things that trip their triggers so you have to have the discipline to stay out of "someone is wrong on the internet" mode. Sort of digital wrestling with pigs.
Also, if you bother to read the Terms and Conditions (some 40 pages long) you'd know what you're giving up in terms of data. You didn't, I didn't, the other people didn't - so on one hand, what are you crying about? You saw the banner, you clicked OK, so now...whats the beef? Facebook's "defense" about Messenger - "You agreed to the terms of use which include...". So don't use Messenger for chatting with your Ashley Madison hookup and such.
Running a business FB page I will say that a large part of the FB population (maybe heavy internet/app uses as well) don't read. "TLDR" if it's more than 5 words. They won't even read whats on a graphic. Post a graphic/flyer for a race with gate prices, gate times, etc - expect at least one post "what time does it start". Same with the sale pages - "How much?" "Did you bother to read the Ad?". etc. A lot of this offence at data mining is really offence at people's own stupidity and unwillingness to research the down side. I just want it, screw the other stuff.
As for TapaCrap, you don't have to install it to read the forums. There are several useful forums on Tapatalk, so it's just the lousy interface that you have to put up with. My log in info on Tap includes nothing, and without the app on my devices they aren't mining anything.
