In the book, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism"[1], it talks about the MO for the big tech companies. How they push and often subtly change things slowly. The book provides a number of examples of this.
I never expected FB to walk back the privacy change. I even expect their full expectations to be in place in a couple years.
It's what they have successfully done in the past.
Indeed, a powerful trick out of the manipulator’s playbook. Also thinking of “Death by a thousand cuts”, “slowly boiling a frog”, etc.
“Creeping normality (also called gradualism, or landscape amnesia[1]) is a process by which a major change can be accepted as normal and acceptable if it happens slowly through small, often unnoticeable, increments of change. The change could otherwise be regarded as objectionable if it took place in a single step or short period.”
I never expected FB to walk back the privacy change. I even expect their full expectations to be in place in a couple years.
It's what they have successfully done in the past.
[1] https://bookshop.org/books/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalis...