WhatsApp – Opting out of new terms doesn’t stop Facebook taking information
It's too late! Have you seen another search engine make a dent in Google's market share? How about another OS challenging Windows on a PC? Another social network?<p>It is rather obvious that: if the main purpose of a business is to grow revenue/market share, if successful, it will eventually grow to close to 100% market share.<p>This situation, commonly known as a monopoly, cannot be reversed by free market competition and government needs to step in, like the US government did by splitting the telcos.<p>I can only guess (I am no expert) the challenge here is that government faces a legal void since these services are <i>free</i> as in no money was paid to use them. Owners of these services are on the ad business and there is plenty of competition there.<p>Government has no interest in protecting our privacy either, on the contrary, they want in!<p>We're left with two options: be a hermit and stop using FB and Whatsapp, or hack the system: install ad blockers + develop unofficial APIs to interact with these services on your own terms.