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Comment by buryat | Hacker News Reader

i forgive facebook all their abuses just because they gave us zstd

I think you should read more about Facebook. Try e.g. the Damien Collins email dump, and read about how their android app tricked people into letting it record all phone call and text message records, knowing full well users would hate it if they found out.

Clearly they produce good technology. But the company is morally bankrupt.

The PDF of of the information I assume you're referring to is: https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/cultu...

Here is a quote from the summary, but I could not find where it was substantiated in the 250-page document:

> Facebook knew that the changes to its policies on the Android mobile phone system, which enabled the Facebook app to collect a record of calls and texts sent by the user would be controversial. To mitigate any bad PR, Facebook planned to make it as hard of possible for users to know that this was one of the underlying features of the upgrade of their app.

You could read about lz4 and then later zstd on http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/ long before he joined facebook.

they didn't though. zstd has been around even before the main dev joined fb, i distinctly remember it being under the persons personal github name.

Yann Collet developed Zstandard first, on his own, then Facebook hired him and Zstandard went along with him.

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