I absolutely agree. I would rather be told the bad news with all the facts than a sugar-coated "oh-we-were-hacked-but-its-not-our-fault-and-you-customers-are-screwed" response.
I don't believe they have 800 million. I think an active account counting as "an account that has logged in within 30 days" is skewing the stats beyond belief.
I got my Logitech Revue as part of a promotion by Google, and I agree with you -- I'm glad I didn't pay for it.
It just didn't do anything spectacular or exciting. The browser is cool, but I always have my iPad 2 with me at the sofa so it was rendered pretty much useless. Also, no apps (until now, if Logitech updates).
Gonna be brutally honest here, those pricing plans are shit. Allow me to log in for an unlimited amount of time and lower the price a bit, and we'll talk.
I think everyone hates Facebook because of their privacy and data mining issues, and I'm inclined to agree with those people. Facebook did sell out in that way, and I think even Steve Jobs knew that. But Zuckerberg didn't sell his company to Microsoft so maybe that's what Jobs meant.
I really hate how Facebook killed the competition because there's no place to go besides G+, and that seems to be targeting a different audience than Facebook. :(
Just because a company is big doesn't mean it has to sell out and stop caring about user privacy.
> Facebook doesn't force you to use their services, and if you do so voluntarily then it's on facebook's terms, though luck.
WRONG! Think about all the sites that have Like buttons. Facebook never showed me a form or a checkbox to use that, did they? Yet they're gathering information on the sites I go to and setting up "shadow profiles" (as europe-v-facebook put them).
You're right, Facebook doesn't make me use Facebook -- they're trying to force me to.
And sure, I can just use hosts to block the Facebook site, but I shouldn't have to do that just to stop them from tracking me.
It's not about morals, it's about the law as it is right now. And the truth is that Facebook is breaking our laws and need to be prosecuted for such.
As for your argument, why is that a terrible law? Why is it bad that users have a right to know what companies have on them? To be honest, I think it's a pretty bloody great law.
Facebook is a victim of itself. If it didn't track users in the first place, it wouldn't be in hot water.
I'm not too impressed. The content is good, but they just seem to give you links to software and then say "Okay, just use this, this, and this and then you'll have an HTML5 app." It doesn't show me how I can use those bits of software. I can find more useful information on HTML5 through a Google search.
Primary example: the Like button. Even when I'm not logged into Facebook the button tracks where I go. I never checked a box to have the like button shown to me.
Also, agreeing to use a website does NOT give the website the ability to break the law. Otherwise, we could have drug-trafficking sites completely in the open with a box saying "By checking this box, you understand that we sell extremely illegal drugs, and that you will not take any action against this site."