alt Hacker NewsIndeed. The 2004 chat snippet is notable because it displayed attitude that was uncommon at the time. Zuck made it mainstream.
Indeed. The 2004 chat snippet is notable because it displayed attitude that was uncommon at the time. Zuck made it mainstream.
Wasn't Google's business model to slurp up literally everything on the web, and everything users would give them to sell eyeballs to advertisers?
Gmail also dates to 2004. If reading your email to sell ads to third parties based on the content of your private correspondence doesn't fit that attitude, I don't know what does.
I stand by my assertion that this shit was always going on, we just weren't wise to it in the 2000s.