Considering the unrelenting data snatching capacity of the desktop app, there are only 3 plausible reasons Facebook, a company so maliciously money hungry that it might just prove the absence of god, would choose to deprecate it
1: something is fundamentally wrong with the app and they feel they are liable for greater damages than their potential profits
2: they’ve improved their data collection on browsers to the point that both methods are equally profitable
3: they don’t believe they need the money. (This one sincerely terrifies me)
They know people use the desktop app in order to not use the phone app, and they want those people on the phone instead because the phone is even more data-valuable and ad-valuable
Facebook web on mobile browser already doesn’t allow messenger, and tells you to get the app. Pulling messenger from the desktop web browser will be the next move, forcing people to app completely.
Considering the unrelenting data snatching capacity of the desktop app, there are only 3 plausible reasons Facebook, a company so maliciously money hungry that it might just prove the absence of god, would choose to deprecate it
1: something is fundamentally wrong with the app and they feel they are liable for greater damages than their potential profits
2: they’ve improved their data collection on browsers to the point that both methods are equally profitable
3: they don’t believe they need the money. (This one sincerely terrifies me)
Facebook web on mobile browser already doesn’t allow messenger, and tells you to get the app. Pulling messenger from the desktop web browser will be the next move, forcing people to app completely.
Glad I don’t use it.
And that’s when I’m installing Prosody on my VDS and telling family to use Conversations.