Facebook Temporarily Disables Some Messenger and Instagram Features in Europe to Comply With EU Data Rules

[sideshowuniqueuser]

Google is a close contender.

I'd put Apple in that bucket too tbh.

 

[sideshowuniqueuser]

Don't forget about Apple. The things protecting Americans' data right now is EU laws and the third largest megacorporation on the planet choosing to do the right thing.

Ah, don't be fooled, Apple are sneakily putting into plan their method of adding to their evil coffers regarding this subject.

 

[Patriks7]

If Facebook isn't the definition of a piece of **** company, I don't know what is

I mean just look at their CEO, explains a lot.

 

[Unsupported]

You know what I mean. Most of the world visit pages indexed by Google. They're the internet. Facebook is nothing but a useless social media app.

Agreed! 👍🏻

 

[Janschi]

I’m so happy that I’ve got rid of Facebook and Instagram a long time ago.
The last ****** app I’ve installed is WhatsApp because no one I know except my gf is actually using iMessage.
It’s a shame Facetime and iMessage never opened their gates to Android/Windows to conquer the spying ad industry.

to be fair, iMessage is pretty bad over all. Other Texting Apps are way better. Apple should've bought WhatsApp back in the day.

 

[Oberhorst]

This hurt me. I can't imagine messenger without nicknames and photo edit feature. Why was it removed? EU has nothing to do? I think there is nothing about "privacy" in nicknames and photo editing! If they are worried about privacy then they should let each user decide if he/she wants to set new privacy "EU" settings! I hope they'll bring it back... Or I'll uninstall messenger!

I hope you're trolling. Otherwise this is about the dumbest thing I've read in a while.

 

[antonrg]

sounds more like they did that on purpose and not because they were asked to, to make users in Europe aware of this law in hope that it would cause an outcry and a discussion to revert this rule or some twisted FB bs

Thinking the same! I doubt EU cares as much as you sending a sticker. I’m sure there is behind the scènes theft of data by FB and as a pushback they are disabling features to make users uncomfortable. I think EU needs to restrict this rotten company even more. Same goes for Apple and their fight with FB now.

 

[antonrg]

It’s quite something that Facebook have managed to make friggin’ stickers violate a privacy law.

It’s probably not about the stickers. This is just to anger/annoy users. They did not specify what exact issue they are having with EU. As someone from EU, I have full confidence in the EU’s stance against this company that has been caught many times on stealing data and yet they’ve gotten away with it so far. Apple is currently having to face them too due to their latest privacy/tracking notification. It is only Facebook that’s crying about that feature. Clearly something is up.
Stickers and features they’ve disabled are just a way to annoy users to get their support.

 

[jackoverfull]

As said before, it’s pretty obvious that the fault is on Facebook’s side: they are disabling features that they have no issue in keeping enabled in WhatsApp, which they own.