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0 pointsgeofft9y ago0 comments

That's like saying "If you don't want to eat horse meat, don't eat fast food." Your solution works, but it's entirely reasonable for a consumer to want to get the positive parts of a good or service (even a good or service you don't like) without the negative parts. Market pressure and regulation are both good ways to make it happen.

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ffggvv9y ago· 1 in thread

In this case, market pressure derives from users deleting their accounts.

For a long time people where saying that ads/tracking is good because nobody is willing to pay for software/service/social media. Well users were paying for whatsapp. There was no need to sell it to facebook, nor there was a need for facebook to use these dark patterns with whatsapp.

Regulation should be an exception. Free markets work pretty well in practice.

0xmohit9y ago

> nor there was a need for facebook to use these dark patterns with whatsapp

Facebook needs to recover it's investment in WhatsApp. No?

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