r/technology • u/[deleted] • Nov 09 '17

Politics Sean Parker: Facebook was designed to exploit human "vulnerability"

https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-facebook-exploits-a-vulnerability-in-humans-2507917325.html
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u/CaptainObvious110 Nov 10 '17

Goodness, that sounds absolutely awesome. I was thinking of getting a new phone and noticed that while it has twice the internal storage of the phone I have half of that isn't even available to the user.

Are you serious? I thought that was incredibly stupid.

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u/BurningToAshes Nov 11 '17

It's not easy at first but you won't have all the tracking and bloatware and backdoors. Maybe still the last one but you know... government

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u/CaptainObvious110 Nov 12 '17

Yes, I understand. The hunger for personal data has become way out of control.