Meta says it can steal any of your business ideas, business processes, and business technologies for its own use and not pay you.

You authorize us [...] to [...] create test credentials to [...] crawl the domains [...] associated with your products or services.

Meta may use any content [...] to [...] train [...] Meta Company Products.

Basically, in exchange for being allowed to continue posting content on Facebook, you're giving them permission from now on to aggressively scrape your own sites for content to train their models.

To quote a famous Sith Lord: "I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further."

“Oh, and make sure all your stuff is legal so we don’t get in trouble when we take it.”

Meta being Meta. No surprise there.

News are posted elsewhere.

And that’s why I will probably never open a business. There’s too much dependence on these platforms and I don’t really see effective alternatives. If you know alternatives that actually work, please tell me. Especially for music, it’s almost all TikTok, Insta, Facebook nowadays. What a waste of life

I mean, this is fine. The "content" most businesses publish where meta can see it is all sanitized advertising nonsense anyway. This will create for meta the least useful ad generator; assuming that such a thing could actually be useful.

Not aware of Meta being used for work.

I’m seeing that there may be some updates to the proposed TOS, but I haven’t checked yet…

Grants itself rights. Sounds so much like… every government.

The detail I found strangest is that reports say Meta intends to let businesses signal crawling preferences through robots.txt, but the terms don't actually spell that out anywhere. So the one escape hatch people keep citing might not exist in the contract itself. It's also an odd spot for paying customers — if you've prepaid ad spend and refuse the terms, do you just eat that loss to keep your product catalog out of training data? The refund question is where this gets teeth. The whole thing reads like a terms change where the only rational option is to shrug and accept it.