<story><title>Facebook threatens to delete synced photos if users don&apos;t download new photo app</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/11/11908500/facebook-moments-auto-sync-notice-deletion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaitsu</author><text>They seem to go about these things in the wrong way. Take Messenger for example, there was no good reason to remove access to this via a browser on mobile devices. I don&amp;#x27;t want to have to install an app for something that was previously available in a browser. If you can&amp;#x27;t provide me with &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; of the features of messenger in the browser then that&amp;#x27;s fine. I thought we were meant to be progressing towards a truly open web accessible to all, regardless of device.&lt;p&gt;This is just another example of Facebook doing whatever they please just because they can. I wonder how long that will last until people start moving away from the platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tobtoh</author><text>&amp;gt; If you can&amp;#x27;t provide me with all of the features of messenger in the browser then that&amp;#x27;s fine.&lt;p&gt;And I&amp;#x27;d also prefer if they don&amp;#x27;t try and hijack other features.&lt;p&gt;I had installed Messenger, but had notifications turned off because I don&amp;#x27;t care to be interrupted every time someone sends me a new message when I&amp;#x27;m not actively participating in the chat.&lt;p&gt;Today, someone tried to call me (as in voice call), via the Messenger app. Because notifications were turned off, I didn&amp;#x27;t realise they had tried to call even though I had the phone with me at the time because it&amp;#x27;s treated as a &amp;#x27;data&amp;#x27; call via Messenger rather than a real phone call.&lt;p&gt;Given that I can&amp;#x27;t separate the functionality of &amp;#x27;text chatting&amp;#x27; from &amp;#x27;phone calls&amp;#x27; made in Messenger, I&amp;#x27;ve now uninstalled it so friends can&amp;#x27;t pseudo-call me via Messenger.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook threatens to delete synced photos if users don&apos;t download new photo app</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/11/11908500/facebook-moments-auto-sync-notice-deletion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaitsu</author><text>They seem to go about these things in the wrong way. Take Messenger for example, there was no good reason to remove access to this via a browser on mobile devices. I don&amp;#x27;t want to have to install an app for something that was previously available in a browser. If you can&amp;#x27;t provide me with &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; of the features of messenger in the browser then that&amp;#x27;s fine. I thought we were meant to be progressing towards a truly open web accessible to all, regardless of device.&lt;p&gt;This is just another example of Facebook doing whatever they please just because they can. I wonder how long that will last until people start moving away from the platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpgmaker</author><text>&amp;gt; I thought we were meant to be progressing towards a truly open web accessible to all, regardless of device.&lt;p&gt;Not at all. It&amp;#x27;s the other way around actually. I think Silicon Valley, out of sheer pettiness, has betrayed the principles that were supposed to guide the WWW.</text></comment>