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I absolutely agree. I would rather be told the bad news with all the facts than a sugar-coated "oh-we-were-hacked-but-its-not-our-fault-and-you-customers-are-screwed" response.

I use them for occasional code surfing.

I don't believe they have 800 million. I think an active account counting as "an account that has logged in within 30 days" is skewing the stats beyond belief.

They have more like 500 million active right now.

I got my Logitech Revue as part of a promotion by Google, and I agree with you -- I'm glad I didn't pay for it.

It just didn't do anything spectacular or exciting. The browser is cool, but I always have my iPad 2 with me at the sofa so it was rendered pretty much useless. Also, no apps (until now, if Logitech updates).

Paying $30 a month for 5 hours of use is really stupid.

Gonna be brutally honest here, those pricing plans are shit. Allow me to log in for an unlimited amount of time and lower the price a bit, and we'll talk.

And it's down.

This won't kill Facebook by any means. Terrible marketing, bad approach to social networking, and of course it won't make people stop using Facebook.

I think everyone hates Facebook because of their privacy and data mining issues, and I'm inclined to agree with those people. Facebook did sell out in that way, and I think even Steve Jobs knew that. But Zuckerberg didn't sell his company to Microsoft so maybe that's what Jobs meant.

I really hate how Facebook killed the competition because there's no place to go besides G+, and that seems to be targeting a different audience than Facebook. :(

Just because a company is big doesn't mean it has to sell out and stop caring about user privacy.

Well, patent trolls cause companies to spend more money on legal efforts than on innovating so I agree.

insert rant about how broken the patent system is here

>true tabloid Daily Mail

I seriously hope you're being sarcastic...

Interesting idea for donations. I'll give it a try once my PayPal account stops hating me.

Maybe add some alternate payment gateway support (e.g. WePay, Google Checkout, etc.)? :)

> Facebook doesn't force you to use their services, and if you do so voluntarily then it's on facebook's terms, though luck.

WRONG! Think about all the sites that have Like buttons. Facebook never showed me a form or a checkbox to use that, did they? Yet they're gathering information on the sites I go to and setting up "shadow profiles" (as europe-v-facebook put them).

You're right, Facebook doesn't make me use Facebook -- they're trying to force me to.

And sure, I can just use hosts to block the Facebook site, but I shouldn't have to do that just to stop them from tracking me.