Am I just living on a different planet or is Facebook just basically saying the equivalent of “we faced a few headwinds with Apple and it’s policies. We couldn’t locate the people we wanted to, to behead them, but we have still beheaded millions of people”. Why do they think that they have a good given right to track ANYBODY across other websites??? Why aren’t they in jail? It’s basically harassment and theft.
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Apple's Privacy Measures to Cost Facebook $10 Billion in 2022
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It's not "harassment and theft" when FB users agree to the terms of service, data policy, etc. If a user doesn't read or understand the terms or policies, it's on them. If they don't like the terms or policies, they don't have to use the product.
WAAAY TO GO APPLE!*
*Now if you could just remove the CSAM spying software from iOS...
*Now if you could just remove the CSAM spying software from iOS...
Again this is not an Apple issue or something they are required to allow on their platforms
Apple doesn't seem to have a problem with potentially exposing its users' privacy and data to fatten the pockets of their shareholders. That's a reason why they made Google the default search engine.
This website (MacRumors) and many others track and share user data for things like advertising too.
Facebook has enough cash to give every employee a $1m severence and then just fold the company. If Zuckerberg wanted to do the internet a favour, thats what he would do.
Reality check:
Facebook still made insane profits and met their own performance expectations. Only pie-in-the-sky analyst expectations were missed. This is a temporary stock dip until they figure out how to trick people into disabling privacy protection, or find a way to circumvent them.
Also American investors are stupid, all Zuck has to do is get up on a podium and announce more “metaverse” plans and investors will throw money at him.
Facebook won’t die or fade out. They’re far too entrenched and too big to fail.
These articles come up every so often and people jump for joy that Facebook hit a speedbump, but then they recover and people forget until the next speedbump.
Facebook still made insane profits and met their own performance expectations. Only pie-in-the-sky analyst expectations were missed. This is a temporary stock dip until they figure out how to trick people into disabling privacy protection, or find a way to circumvent them.
Also American investors are stupid, all Zuck has to do is get up on a podium and announce more “metaverse” plans and investors will throw money at him.
Facebook won’t die or fade out. They’re far too entrenched and too big to fail.
These articles come up every so often and people jump for joy that Facebook hit a speedbump, but then they recover and people forget until the next speedbump.
Also I’m curious when companies will realize that internet advertising isn’t worth the amount of money spent.
There has to be trillions spent on getting ****** pop up ads or banner ads for people to ignore on every website, autoplay videos, etc. I highly doubt the return on investment is that high.
There has to be trillions spent on getting ****** pop up ads or banner ads for people to ignore on every website, autoplay videos, etc. I highly doubt the return on investment is that high.
What would you recommend for the tens of millions of small businesses that use Facebook to promote their products and services, generate leads, direct traffic to their website, etc.? All high usage platforms desirable for small business sales/marketing efforts have similar tracking and data usage policies.
The issue is that "free" attracts the users and creates the desired traffic volume (and FB certainly has that), but "free" requires a way for the platform owner to make money. The best way to make that money is targeted advertising and targeted advertising requires the collection of tracking and usage data.
One way to remove the need to collect and monetize usage data is to require users to pay for a subscription but that will dramatically reduce the number of users and as a result, make it much less appealing and cost effective for small business owners, etc.
This applies to all sorts of forums and social media sites. Imagine how many fewer users MacRumors would have if people HAD to pay for a subscription.
This tracking thing has gotten way out of hand, and I'm glad Apple is trying to do something about it! Though sometimes I wonder what Apple might be doing themselves.
Recently I have visited several sites that I've shopped for years, and found that unless I paused or stopped my anti-tracking apps I could not click on the desired item to be purchased. In fact I could not go any further than a mass listing of goods, getting specific information about the product was barred unless I suspended blockers.
When I complained to one company they simply sent me an email with their "privacy policy" link. Which of course, in a a somewhat cryptic fashion, requires the user to give up any privacy. I specifically asked them if they shared/sold visitor information and I've gotten "crickets" in response.
Frankly, I just wanted the company to admit in plain language what they were doing. Yes, their privacy policy "beats around the bush" about what they do with the information. I understand many companies do this, and this is the way of the world. But it doesn't make it right.
Recently I have visited several sites that I've shopped for years, and found that unless I paused or stopped my anti-tracking apps I could not click on the desired item to be purchased. In fact I could not go any further than a mass listing of goods, getting specific information about the product was barred unless I suspended blockers.
When I complained to one company they simply sent me an email with their "privacy policy" link. Which of course, in a a somewhat cryptic fashion, requires the user to give up any privacy. I specifically asked them if they shared/sold visitor information and I've gotten "crickets" in response.
Frankly, I just wanted the company to admit in plain language what they were doing. Yes, their privacy policy "beats around the bush" about what they do with the information. I understand many companies do this, and this is the way of the world. But it doesn't make it right.
They are themselves not convinced that he has to go. But once he becomes a liability for the company, he would be thrown out, regardless of his voting powers.
Anything that makes FB poorer, smaller, less intrusive or destructive to democracy or life is fine by me.
Wither FB? I hope so.
Wither FB? I hope so.
LoL, unless he voted himself out, or he ends up in jail, he’ll flip the bird to anybody demanding his resignation.
Say it with me:This tracking thing has gotten way out of hand, and I'm glad Apple is trying to do something about it! Though sometimes I wonder what Apple might be doing themselves.
Recently I have visited several sites that I've shopped for years, and found that unless I paused or stopped my anti-tracking apps I could not click on the desired item to be purchased. In fact I could not go any further than a mass listing of goods, getting specific information about the product was barred unless I suspended blockers.
When I complained to one company they simply sent me an email with their "privacy policy" link. Which of course, in a a somewhat cryptic fashion, requires the user to give up any privacy. I specifically asked them if they shared/sold visitor information and I've gotten "crickets" in response.
Frankly, I just wanted the company to admit in plain language what they were doing. Yes, their privacy policy "beats around the bush" about what they do with the information. I understand many companies do this, and this is the way of the world. But it doesn't make it right.
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