This (or any other Facebook feature/change) wouldn’t be such a big deal if Facebook weren’t a monopoly which actively takes steps to remain one. Namely,
- being a closed platform with no easy way to migrate your data to another platform
- buying out the competition
As long as the above is true I consider Facebook as acting against its users’ interests, regardless of any specific feature.
If this is GDPR related then it's to do with privacy, not competition. Suppose you did download a bunch of liked pages, friends comments. What would you do with them? Learn python and import it into, I don't know, Twitter or something? Most people aren't actively looking for a way to do exactly whatever it is on Facebook.com using a different URL.
This (or any other Facebook feature/change) wouldn’t be such a big deal if Facebook weren’t a monopoly which actively takes steps to remain one. Namely,
- being a closed platform with no easy way to migrate your data to another platform
- buying out the competition
As long as the above is true I consider Facebook as acting against its users’ interests, regardless of any specific feature.