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AlexandrB on April 2, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Message to Our Users

I work very hard to keep Facebook out of my life. I run an ad-blocker and I don't log into my (inert) Facebook account outside of privacy mode (or a VM). Unfortunately, I don't have a choice about using Zoom. So it sucks that I'm effectively getting backdoored with this nonsense. Why is it OK to expose my information to an advertising company like Facebook without asking for permission first? Because everyone else does it?

amiga_500 on April 2, 2020 [–]

agreed, I'm the same except i have no FB account.

I can't help but feel this sudden Zoom "panic" is coming from large (and incompetent) tech companies who are not happy with an upstart.

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