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by product50 6y ago
Stop making strawman arguments around billionaires and trillion $$ companies. The only company which can take on Apple is another large company with passionate user following. Small developers like you and me just come here on Hacker News a
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by product50 6y ago
Whoever the author is, I hope that he doesn't have a Uighur relative in Xinjiang in jail trying to get reformed and a friend in Hong Kong trying to free the country. If you were in China, you couldn't even write an article critici
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by product50 6y ago
You are talking as if somehow non-Americans have access to more liberties across non-government entities in their lives. If anything, Americans treasure and enjoy the most freedoms across the widest gamut of institutions vs. non Americans.
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by product50 6y ago
If you are ignorant it is not on everyone else to bring you upto speed. There have been several articles on this already. Here is something you should try. Next time, goto a tourist hotspot such as Iceland or Venice and ask the locals there
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by product50 6y ago
This is just a matter of time. Almost all countries actually want US citizens to come there, for tourism purposes, due to their high spend potential (relative to other countries).
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by product50 6y ago
As a user I am totally happy with Amazon's service. They shouldn't change their entire setup and make things a lot more expensive for everyone based on these infrequent use cases. And Amazon customer support is awesome. Your bulle
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by product50 6y ago
I hope you realize that in your definition of "us" it is just you and a small grp of your European friends. Rest of Europe are busy searching on Google and sharing photos on Instagram.
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by product50 6y ago
Wow - such great companies. I am flattered. Please be real. US has FB, Google, MSFT, Apple. China has Tencent, Alibaba, Bytedance. And look at the list you have come up for Europe.
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by product50 6y ago
Where is the Europe's alternate to US's or Chinese companies? Please give examples to support your cases vs. just calling out your biases. It is so unfortunate that Europe has just allowed itself to be so dominated by US' and
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by product50 6y ago
What a joke of a company. They literally have done nothing in terms of building innovative products in the past 7 yrs since IPO and their monthly active users is static. And then, to distract away from their poor product roadmap, they take
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by product50 6y ago
I hope you realize that apps like these kill the ecosystem for content creators who are paid based on ads. If you don't like YT ads, pay for the premium version. But suggesting that this app is great is not right. Anyways, I trust if t
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by product50 6y ago
You can always opt out ad tracking in iPhone, even today, by using Limit Ad Tracking option in Settings.
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by product50 6y ago
How do I read this article? Looks like it is behind a paywall.
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by product50 6y ago
If ever there was a one sided article, it was this. Doesn't even talk about the nuances of the problems. Journalists are like how dare tech people are criticizing us - but it is totally ok to do it the other way round. The difference n
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by product50 6y ago
You are right. It is becoming too difficult for me to control myself when I read something written by someone being ignorant. Maybe, I should do a better job letting it go vs. attacking. I have been working on it - but I do hope that you ar
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by product50 6y ago
You have no idea what you are saying. You need to go deep to have sane arguments. If FB loses 100M users in US, they are actually going to lose their shit vs. them losing 100M users in APAC. Get real. The fact of the matter is no user in US
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by product50 6y ago
400 advertisers, who are the largest brands, have already boycotted Facebook. And the stock is near all time high (it recovered the losses this week) and Zuckerberg is pretty much saying he won't change nothing. So there you have it. V
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by product50 6y ago
You are absolutely wrong on both counts. THe only real change will come from users. If Facebook users start boycotting (and to be clear no users are doing this), that is what will hurt them. So while you and I continue to be outraged, a lot
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by product50 6y ago
Last 10 things I bought from FB ads. All arrived and our family loves it. Anecdotes are just that - one off instances. What matters is the trend. And a lot of users buy from Facebook Ads and are happy with it. That is why Facebook revenue k
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by product50 6y ago
For a lot of folks, especially those at Hacker News, that is totally fine. It is interesting how people's perspectives change when it comes to defending their choice. So in this case, yeah Android seems secure but what happens after 2y
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by product50 6y ago
I hope you realize that for the uninformed, like me, your response is as dubious as OPs. All you are saying that this is false and it has been proven by empirical evidence - trust me.
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by product50 6y ago
America will literally fuck with you if you start doing this at scale. India can ban Chinese app since India can do this. China needed to understand this before escalating the border tensions with India.
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by product50 6y ago
And why should we believe you vs. Plato?
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by product50 6y ago
Doesn't matter. That money will be replaced by performance advertisers. Top 100 Fortune brands make up 6% of FB ad revenue. This is why all these boycott FB ads doesn't make any sense. THe only thing which will hurt FB is users bo
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by product50 6y ago
Haha. Good luck. You have no idea how these platforms make money. Starbucks, Coca Cola don't spend much on these platforms anyways. They are just using this as an opportunity to gain brownie points without incurring much harm anyways.
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by product50 6y ago
I feel so lucky that I live in an area with fiber internet and 1000mbps speeds. I remember when we were house hunting, this was one of my criteria. While leads to my point - if enough people want fast internet speeds, they should/could
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by product50 6y ago
This is the problem with Chinese apps. You just can't rely on them. They simply don't have the same principles of privacy like US companies do. Even Facebook won't do something like this.
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by product50 6y ago
what bad behavior? providing a 6mo heads up that you don't need to come back is pretty reasonable. while you are at criticizing these companies, do know that a lot of smaller companies are requiring their employees to come to work in l
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by product50 6y ago
Wow. You really need to find a better place to work if you are in an environment which makes you feel like this.
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by product50 6y ago
This is terrible advice and this type of thinking is a common indicator of an employee who is not motivated. The goal is to not just build but build products customers want.

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