Companies like Facebook aren’t building technology for you, they’re building technology for your data. They collect everything they can from FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp in order to sell visibility into people and their lives.This isn’t exactly a secret, but the full picture is hazy to most – diml...
  • Dreeg OcedamOP
    6•3 years ago

    FB has made a statement to a journalist (sorry, I wasn’t able to find anything other than the journalist’s twitter)

    There seem to be some push back questioning the honesty of Signal and this HN thread seems to agree with it.

    I personally think that Signal doesn’t have any reason to lie. The ads are explicitly against facebook advertising policies that “prohibits ads that assert that you have a specific medical condition or sexual orientation”, so its not like it would be hard for them to actually get the ads banned.