Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Told Staff Facebook Needs to 'Inflict Pain' on Apple Over Privacy Dispute

[and 1989 others]

On balance FB needs apple on side. Millions of people use iphones and ipads, and the app store hosts the FB app.

How exactly is Zuck going to 'inflict pain'?

I can see Tim watching all this play out from his office while he finishes a bag of oranges.

 

[hortod1]

How long is it going to take until there is a real boycott Facebook movement?

Not soon enough

 

[PBG4 Dude]

Not soon enough

Doesn’t take a boycott movement to make one’s own decision. I quit Facebook a couple of years ago; simply because I didn’t want to contribute to their success anymore.

 

[chrono1081]

It is only since their own ad platform failed that they have come to find mobile ads highly egregious. Funny how that goes..

Apples not against ads, they’re against all the privacy stealing that happens.

 

[asiga]

[...] to "inflict pain" on Apple [...]

I don't think he can inflict any pain greater than having created Facebook and thus having turned the World into a global high school yard.

 

[kennyt72]

Jobs wasn't out there trying to screw good innocent people like lil Marky Mark. There is no comparison here.

He denied his own daughter, there is no one more good and innocent than a child, you can't get much lower.

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

I sometimes feel that Facebook is successful despite Zuckerberg instead of because of Zuckerberg.

 

[Scipster]

As if we needed more evidence that Facebook is a bully when it comes to data and privacy. Who else says "inflict pain"??

At least Epic has some semblance of a case. This is the just the bully whining on the playground after they get caught!

 

[Edsel]

I have started to despise the "Internet". We need a new parallel communications portal. One that is devoid of tracking bots. Never thought I'd miss the old 300 baud direct dial-up days.

 

[ThemePro]

U Mad Mark?

 

[lyngo]

Facebook is already a pain infliction on itself.

 

[WaxedJacket]

As Cosmo Kramer once said, "Catfight!"

 

[tcphoto1]

And immediately after making the threat, Mark rushed off to a Facebook Watch meeting and asked himself, “how would Steve do it?”...

 

[windywalks]

Don’t let them track, get served with crappy ads, let them track you, get targeted ads. It’s really a no win situation.

I don't wish do be served with any ads whatsoever. If it means my privacy is at least marginally protected I'm alright with crappy ads.

 

[Mike_Trivisonno]

Apple is a company that has a long history of innovation that advances the state of the art. Facebook is a data harvesting company with no real value beyond that which is gleaned surreptitiously from their users.

Big difference, Mark. Apple will be here long after Facebook is just a bad memory.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

I hope Apple squashes him like the insect he is!

 

[Captain Trips]

Looking forward to Facebook switching its status to a non-profit charity this year.

I thought they already were? The "Charity to make Zuckerberg Independently Wealthy"...

 

[Veinticinco]

There are many scummy companies out there but there’s only two off the top of my head that I’d actively like to see collapse in financial ruin based on their reprehensible practices and obnoxious leadership...

Ryanair and Facebook.

 

[Captain Trips]

Zuckerberg is psychopath

No, he is a sociopath. He hasn't actually tried to kill someone in person, as far as I know...

 

[minimo3]

Grab some popcorn this is gonna be fun to watch. Not only are the feds/govts around the world going after big tech, they’re turning on each other

 

[Captain Trips]

Meanwhile, the lockdown app continues to be worth its proverbial weight on gold, routinely blocking thousands of trackers from google and facebook each day.

What lockdown app? I ask out of interest. I use Safari and love the tracker blocking functionality, but if there are other tracking blockers (especially if their scope isn't limited to Safari), that would be nice.

 

[obamtl]

Poor Facebook, maybe if they weren't such an evil corporation, Apple wouldn't have to do this.

I'd go so far as to say maybe if Facebook's leadership weren't so evil, they'd actually support what Apple is doing!

 

[Abazigal]

What lockdown app? I ask out of interest. I use Safari and love the tracker blocking functionality, but if there are other tracking blockers (especially if their scope isn't limited to Safari), that would be nice.

this is the one I am using.

‎Lockdown Privacy: VPN & Proxy

‎Lockdown blocks trackers and badware in all your apps, blocking an estimated 100 million trackers per month for over 300,000 people. — Comprehensive Protection — Lockdown has two privacy features: Firewall and Secure Tunnel VPN. Each feature protects you from different threats, creating the...

apps.apple.com

On system, and works on apps as well.

 

[Psychicbob]

Tiger calls a Lion out for being a carnivore

 

[Captain Trips]

this is the one I am using.

‎Lockdown Privacy: VPN & Proxy

‎Lockdown blocks trackers and badware in all your apps, blocking an estimated 100 million trackers per month for over 300,000 people. — Comprehensive Protection — Lockdown has two privacy features: Firewall and Secure Tunnel VPN. Each feature protects you from different threats, creating the...

apps.apple.com

On system, and works on apps as well.

Sweet, that looks good. I don't install a lot of apps on my iPhone or iPad that I can get to via a web browser, but it will still be good to have an app to help prevent tracking outside of Safari.

Thanks again!