“I’m usually fine with surveillance capitalism but this is too much, even for me.”

#surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley #humanRights #democracy #facebook #meta #google abyssdomain.expert/@filippo/11…

Filippo Valsorda :go: (@filippo@abyssdomain.expert)

Attached: 1 image I usually get where big tech is coming from, but this is just malicious tracking. If you're an engineer and you're asked to implement something like this, it's time to whistleblow. I hope the IE DPA will look into it.

^Mastodon

Kulturstaatsminister will Internetkonzerne mit Abgabe zur Kasse bitten

Wolfram Weimer wirft den großen Internetkonzernen Steuervermeidung vor. Die Medienvielfalt sei in Gefahr. Österreich gilt als Vorbild.

heise.de/news/Kulturstaatsmini…

#Apple #Google #Medien #Facebook #Microsoft #Netzpolitik #Steuerrecht #news

Kulturstaatsminister will Internetkonzerne mit Abgabe zur Kasse bitten

^{dpa (heise online)}

#Facebook front office grabbed great publicity from its bold #billion dollar public #pledge to help solve the #BayArea #housing crisis, then after the cameras, clicks and likes disappeared so did it's phony commitment, as #Meta quietly cut the funding teat and #ghosted the topic.

Money did flow at first , as public entities provided matching funds, but #Zuggerfugger's #PaloAlto #SocialMedia #boardroom backed shills quietly cut and run, committing far less than a quarter of the publicly pledged total. The vast majority of money from Meta, a company lacking a corporate charitable arm, came back to their HQ, repaid as low 2% interest rate loans of up to $15m to developers, not actual donations.

5 years after the flurry of #publicity, the unfulfilled propaganda pipe dream went deferred, projects were few and far between, impacts largely lost and untold in a region still desperately in need of more affordable housing.

eastbaytimes.com/2025/05/23/me… #GiftLink #SharedStory #SiliconValley #HousingCrisis

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.

#Meta speichert z.B die politische Neigung seiner User. Zusehen im hinteren Teil dieser tollen Doku über (damals noch) #Facebookvimeo.com/471514311 Was passiert wohl mit Anhänger der #Linken, wenn hier jemals die #FckAfD #Nazis an die Macht kommen und die diese Daten von #Zuckerberg kaufen?

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dokFilm: Fake America Great Again. Wie Facebook und Co. die Demokratie gefährden 18.10.20 ORF2

Mit 77.000 Stimmen in drei Staaten gewann Donald Trump 2016 die Wahl zum US-Präsidenten, obwohl er insgesamt fast drei Millionen Stimmen weniger hatte als seine…

^Vimeo

The rise and fall of Facebook (and other dominant online services). Interesting read.

#TedGioia #facebook #google #amazon

tedgioia.substack.com/p/how-we…

How Web Platforms Collapse: The Facebook Case Study

Or ten times Mark Zuckerberg jerked me around

^{Ted Gioia (The Honest Broker)}