> It was always a clear business transaction: acess to a messenging service for access to meta data (and now message data).

Nah it wasn’t, I paid for WhatsApp originally and then there was a subscription model for a while.

I much prefer both those models, Facebook is just greedy.

So what should self sentient person do, just lie down and accept the erosions of our blood won freedoms? No thanks. I have right now all my company talking to thousands of customers explaining this mess to them and helping those who need to switch to Signal. So yeah, fuck you FB!