<story><title>Facebook&apos;s Hypocrisy on Apple&apos;s New iOS 14 Privacy Feature</title><url>https://thebigtech.substack.com/p/facebook-criticising-apples-ios-14</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amatecha</author><text>I miss the late-90&amp;#x27;s web pretty much every day :(</text></item><item><author>headmelted</author><text>The web used to &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; ads, not &lt;i&gt;be&lt;/i&gt; ads.  Now it&amp;#x27;s permeated everything to the extent that almost every click is paid for.&lt;p&gt;Whether it&amp;#x27;s Facebook, Google or someone else entirely, the web&amp;#x27;s a broken pay-to-win mess and I don&amp;#x27;t see a way back to it being any reasonable definition of open while the status quo remains.</text></item><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>Facebook and Google have completely smashed the online advertising industry. The whole reason online advertising is so difficult to profit on is because Facebook and Google have sucked all the profit out of the room. The Open Web is a total shambles because of nonsense from Google and Facebook so many companies don&amp;#x27;t even have an alternative to fall back on...  Now Facebook is claiming they are defending small business. What a joke.&lt;p&gt;Anything which causes Facebook to make this much noise must be good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tpetry</author><text>I dont miss popups or popunders. Popup blockers had not been able to block every one, it was so annoying.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook&apos;s Hypocrisy on Apple&apos;s New iOS 14 Privacy Feature</title><url>https://thebigtech.substack.com/p/facebook-criticising-apples-ios-14</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amatecha</author><text>I miss the late-90&amp;#x27;s web pretty much every day :(</text></item><item><author>headmelted</author><text>The web used to &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; ads, not &lt;i&gt;be&lt;/i&gt; ads.  Now it&amp;#x27;s permeated everything to the extent that almost every click is paid for.&lt;p&gt;Whether it&amp;#x27;s Facebook, Google or someone else entirely, the web&amp;#x27;s a broken pay-to-win mess and I don&amp;#x27;t see a way back to it being any reasonable definition of open while the status quo remains.</text></item><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>Facebook and Google have completely smashed the online advertising industry. The whole reason online advertising is so difficult to profit on is because Facebook and Google have sucked all the profit out of the room. The Open Web is a total shambles because of nonsense from Google and Facebook so many companies don&amp;#x27;t even have an alternative to fall back on...  Now Facebook is claiming they are defending small business. What a joke.&lt;p&gt;Anything which causes Facebook to make this much noise must be good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>It was awful then too: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=YlGklt4BSQ8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=YlGklt4BSQ8&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>