19.06.2025 Versprechen von WhatsApp gebrochen

Wir wollen Messenger ohne Werbung!

Es ist ja nicht neu, dass WhatsApp unsere Daten zu seinem eigenen Nutzen verkauft und damit Milliarden verdient hat. Doch damit nicht genug will Mark Zuckerberg uns künftig auch noch innerhalb des Messengers Werbung aufdrängen, um noch mehr Geld zu machen.

Die WhatsApp-Chefs im Jahr 2012 vor der Übernahme durch Mark Zuckerberg versprachen noch, zitiert nach Netzpolitik.org:

Werbung ist nicht nur die Störung der Ästhetik, die Beleidigung deiner Intelligenz und die Unterbrechung deines Gedankengangs. Bei jedem Unternehmen, das Anzeigen verkauft, verbringt ein erheblicher Teil des Engineering-Teams seinen Tag damit, die Datenanalyse zu optimieren […]. Sobald Werbung im Spiel ist, bist du als Nutzer*in das Produkt.

Diese Sätze gelten auch heute noch und deshalb sollten wir jetzt alle gemeinsam diesen Messenger verlassen. Oder gibt es jemanden, der sich darüber freut, dass man niemanden mehr anrufen kann, ohne sich zuerst einen Werbeclip anhören zu müssen? Ebenso werden alle meine Nachrichten - egal ob lustig oder traurig - mit knallbunten Werbebannern geschmückt.

Noch im Jahr 2014 nach dem Kauf von WhatsApp sagte Mark Zuckerberg: Wir werden unsere Pläne rund um WhatsApp absolut nicht ändern. [...] WhatsApp wird völlig eigenständig arbeiten.

Inzwischen leben wir seit Jahren mit der Personalisierung unsere Daten über alle Meta-Dienste wie z.B. Instagram und Facebook hinweg. Auch dieses Versprechen wurde gebrochen. Wir können nur unseren Abschied von Facebook und allen Diensten des Mark Zuckerberg (bereits 2011) allen Menschen nahelegen ...
Es gibt viele gute, sicher Ende-zu-Ende verschlüsselte Messenger, wie Briar, Element, Session, Signal, Threema, Wire, ...

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@Danie — 2025-04-07 20:44:43

‘Careless People’ Is the Book About Facebook I’ve Wanted for a Decade, but it is Banned

“Careless People, by Sarah Wynn-Williams, is the book about Facebook that I didn’t know I had been waiting a decade to read. It’s also, notably, a book that Facebook does not want you to read; Wynn-Williams is currently under a gag order from a third-party arbitrator that prevents her from promoting or talking about the book because Facebook argued that it violates a non-disparagement clause in her employment contract.”
Well of course now everyone will try to get hold of this book and read it. Nothing promotes a book better than a gagging or banning order. It implies there is some truth in it that someone does not want to get out.
We’ve all known for a long time, at least since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, that Facebook has done some despicable things. Their efforts at fact checking etc was all part of the PR to try to disguise the questionable ethics that seemed to be ruling the roost.
If we just think back to the very beginning why Mark created Facebook, it was questionable from the get-go. I still have a video clip where Mark is interviewed and he clearly states the user’s data belongs to the user, yet that data got sold and reshared elsewhere. To this day, WhatsApp has in its T&Cs that metadata will be shared upstream to Facebook and other partners. They are not trying to hide that fact.
Out of all the Big tech companies, it is Facebook (Meta) that I have the least liking for. This is mainly for the repeated transgressions of privacy over many years. I can even stomach a company like Google using data (like reading our GMail) if they are not actually on selling or resharing that data like FB does. As far as we know, no other company has crossed the line like Facebook has.
So of course I’ll be interested in this book now too. I know it won’t change much because at the end of the day, the only way a company like this feels anything, is if its users dessert its platform. That is just not likely to happen with Facebook in the shorter to medium term.
“When I wonder if the company knows that its platforms are being taken over by the worst AI slop you could possibly imagine, if it knows that it is directly paying people to flood these platforms with spam, if it knows it is full of deepfakes and AI generated content of celebrities and cartoon characters doing awful things, if it knows it is showing terrible things to kids. Of course, it does. It just doesn’t care.”
See 404media.co/careless-people-is…
#Blog, #banned, #facebook, #reading, #technology

#meta #Wynn-Williams #CambridgeAnalytica #Zuckerberg #Censorship

‘Careless People’ Is the Book About Facebook I’ve Wanted for a Decade, but the Author is Gagged from Promoting It

“Careless People, by Sarah Wynn-Williams, is the book about Facebook that I didn’t know I had been waiting a decade to read. It’s also, notably, a book that Facebook does not want you to read; Wynn-Williams is currently under a gag order from a third-party arbitrator that prevents her from promoting or talking about the book because Facebook argued that it violates a non-disparagement clause in her employment contract.”

Well of course now everyone will try to get hold of this book and read it. Nothing promotes a book better than a gagging or banning order. It implies there is some truth in it that someone does not want to get out.

We’ve all known for a long time, at least since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, that Facebook has done some despicable things. Their efforts at fact checking etc was all part of the PR to try to disguise the questionable ethics that seemed to be ruling the roost.

If we just think back to the very beginning why Mark created Facebook, it was questionable from the get-go. I still have a video clip where Mark is interviewed and he clearly states the user’s data belongs to the user, yet that data got sold and reshared elsewhere. To this day, WhatsApp has in its T&Cs that metadata will be shared upstream to Facebook and other partners. They are not trying to hide that fact.

Out of all the Big tech companies, it is Facebook (Meta) that I have the least liking for. This is mainly for the repeated transgressions of privacy over many years. I can even stomach a company like Google using data (like reading our GMail) if they are not actually on selling or resharing that data like FB does. As far as we know, no other company has crossed the line like Facebook has.

So of course I’ll be interested in this book now too. I know it won’t change much because at the end of the day, the only way a company like this feels anything, is if its users dessert its platform. That is just not likely to happen with Facebook in the shorter to medium term.

“When I wonder if the company knows that its platforms are being taken over by the worst AI slop you could possibly imagine, if it knows that it is directly paying people to flood these platforms with spam, if it knows it is full of deepfakes and AI generated content of celebrities and cartoon characters doing awful things, if it knows it is showing terrible things to kids. Of course, it does. It just doesn’t care.”

See 404media.co/careless-people-is…
#Blog, #banned, #facebook, #reading, #technology