You better understand the move to open source office tools when you read about Techbros and demented presidents in action.

The interesting wrinkle is that this is effectively a consent laundering scheme. Individual users can't meaningfully opt out of AI training across the ecosystem, and now business accounts 'consent' on behalf of every visitor whose data passes through their sites. The website operator agrees to terms covering content they don't solely own — comments, bylines, photos of third parties.

Legally the news organizations are in a bind that's worth watching: block Meta's crawler and lose distribution, or allow it and hand over training data to a company building the models that flatten their traffic. The Nieman Lab angle makes sense — for publishers this is choosing between two slow bleeds.

Now are they talking about these companies Facebook business profiles that some companies use as their "website " or they talking about going to your actual www.incertnamehere.com allows them to scrim it?

I heard they're releasing a new brand logo too:

Whoever still uses meta or twitter has no one to complain to about their own fault.

Damm. Sorry dumping some rant, my work forces us to use whatsapp, so far my chat is a bunch of numbers didnt give access to contacts. Most of the time idk who is talking to me. I have two pixels with graphene os, 1 for work and my personal. And vpn always on. Also i disable the javascript in Ironfox, ublock chilling in extensions. At this rate im about to euthanize the fam network and block all meta related incoming and outgoin.

Keep enshitifying, Meta, keep going.

Of course I can say that having mindfully avoided Meta apps for years. Some people are stuck on them because it's what their boss uses.

The updated terms explicitly state that Meta can use the content it collects from associated websites to “train” Meta products. Elsewhere in its terms of service, the company defines “AI at Meta” as one of those products.

I would have assumed they were already doing that.

Reminds me of why I quit WhatsApp, they started requiring uploading your entire phone address book and I wasn't willing to allow that.

Stop using meta products

Fuck meta.

i dont use facebook or instagram BUT I have to rely on Whatsapp. My workplace uses it, my family uses it, my friends use it....etc.

Meta can use web scrapers to crawl and collect content from websites “associated with” business accounts on its platforms, according to its new commercial terms of use.

Not valid here (means, it does not really give them that permission), and they could get sued if they used such t&c here.

What are their IP addresses again?