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PSA: If you use the Meta AI app, your friends will find out and it will be embarrassing | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

For some reason its very popular in Asia, according to my partner who is Thai and 23 years old.

Facebook subsidized mobile internet access specifically to facebook properties for a decade or so in many parts of the world. If you went to Google.com you'd get charged for mobile data. if you went to any Facebook company sites, it was free data. This is also why Whatapp is so embedded in many parts of the world. Text messages were charged, while Whatapp messages were free.