I’m pretty sure the EU won’t let them pull this off with their EU employees. And the US will do absolutely nothing to protect their citizens that are employees of Meta. Disgusting behaviour from Meta, there’s absolutely no bottom for them.

I’ve been reading these articles for about an hour now trying to figure out the plan.

The plan

I genuinely thought this was an Onion article and was surprised to see another news source

Yeah if you have to compare a service with Netflix, and Netflix comes out as the better value proposition, the other service is doing something really wrong.

They’re ok with their ads harming society, democracy, human rights and civil liberties. But they’re removing ads that might give their victims the means to fight for the harm they caused them.

These are the companies we’re supposed to trust they’ll implement Chat Control or similarly intrusive technologies properly.

Don’t succumb to bullies. Protect your citizens.

I wonder how there can be a trust of Trump in the first place

If the US was a person.

WhatsApp was the best messaging app out there. Clean, fast, intuitive UI. No bloat. And then Facebook bought it and shat all over it. Now it looks like their crappy Messenger app. Time to go.

Oh I didn’t know. That explains a lot.

I clicked on the article in order to understand the reasoning behind this change, especially at this time where the cold weather is especially harsh for a portion of Ukrainians without electricity/heating:

Announcing his signature on the bill, Nawrocki, who is aligned with the right-wing opposition and regularly clashes with the more liberal ruling coalition, claimed credit for pushing the government towards ending the “unconditional privileges” granted to Ukrainians.

No reason. Just another fascist undoing policies put in place by human beings with a bit more sanity.

Make no mistake, these are the indirect result of US bullying via “mutually agreed trade deals”, undermining every single policy the EU has put in place for the benefit of their citizens instead of business entities. The trade deals ARE the lobbying.

The US is in freefall and they’re dragging us down with them. From chat control, to unreasonably huge cars in our roads, combined with lax safety standards.

https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/accepting-us-car-standards-would-risk-european-lives-warn-cities-and-civil-society

The audacity and doublethink

This is a huge threat and we owe it to ourselves to defend against this sort of meddling. Look at the results of similar campaigns that pushed Brexit and Trump’s candidacy.

Yep. Thank you for bringing more context.

Bringing preferences, bookmarks, history, migrating passwords to a password manager. All the important functionality of the sites I visit often working without issues. I knew that everything should work without issues, but you never know for sure until you actually give it a go.

Same. MV3 and Google disabling ublock origin even though mv2 was still functional, was the last straw. I was afraid to jump ship after 16 years of Chrome, but I’m really happy I did.

MV3 was revised several times following legitimate concerns. Its current, final form is exactly because these concerns were raised.