{"id":105725,"date":"2018-07-30T16:18:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T16:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=105725"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:14:03","slug":"openbook-the-facebook-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/openbook-the-facebook-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Facebook’s days could be numbered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Openbook could be the privacy and transparency-focused, ad-free, open-source Facebook killer<\/h2>\n

Facebook is trying really hard at the moment to regain our trust. The social media giant has stumbled from one crisis to another over recent months as it has become gallingly clear that the huge amounts of our data it collects are not in safe hands. Everybody from Russian-based analysts<\/a> to democracy-defying deviants<\/a> have been able to get their hands on a lot of Facebook user data<\/a> and then use it to manipulate the public.<\/p>\n

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Accordingly, Facebook is now trying to tell us that it knows this is not what it is for, but popular culture has already started kicking back. HBO host John Oliver gave Facebook\u2019s reconciliation ads a good kicking on Sunday, over $100 billion was wiped off Facebook\u2019s stock value, and there could be even worse storm clouds on the horizon for the big blue, in the form of ethical competition.<\/p>\n