Is anyone surprised by this? Their entire business model is based on tracking people so of course they'll want to de-anonymize users.
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
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If you are using facebook at this point, you deserve anything that happens.
Well. Fuck them. They banned me for calling out racists. Glad they don’t have my data anymore.
and it’s especially surprising coming from two companies that serve billions of users worldwide
I mean, deanonymization and data-mining costs are gonna be R&D, so they're a fixed cost that doesn't really scale up with the size of the userbase, so it makes more sense, financially, for a company with a larger userbase to be putting resources into it.
One could say it's their fiduciary duty.