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Facebook and Instagram Ask Users to Enable App Tracking in Order to Keep Services 'Free of Charge'
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Let's get 2.7B people in on a class-action lawsuit
Signing up is free, but due to lack of income they may be forced to introduce a tiered system, with some paid service level(s) … cough cough. Lead balloon hopefully.
Oh the irony.
Their annual revenue is near 100 billion dollars. Many pennies. And without your paying a single one.
Just say’n.
Facebook charges businesses if they want to put ads on the Facebook network, and the price goes to premium for a more "targeted" placement. The users are the product. So Facebook literally is tryi g to double dip, asking mo ey from advertisers and users.
Well I wasn’t suggesting all of that, lol! But it’s basically inevitable isn’t it? “The Powers That Be” (greed, capitalism, governments, whatever _____) have decided that we are complacent enough that if Facebook ever went away along with their data…then there are already and would continue to be others. Society has shown they don’t care, as a whole, so companies have precedent.
Basically I believe the only way to avoid it would be to literally not use the internet, for anything, and not even send text messages. Only then are you basically safe. Doesn’t anyone remember Snowden suggesting to cover the holes of your mic and webcam on laptops and cellphones? And in a photo from several years ago while at his office headquarters Zuckerberg is in a selfie pic for Instagram and in the background you can see his workstation computer has the holes covered taped over.
If Zuckerberg is doing that…
dumb question - do i want to click "allow apps to ask to track" or keep it turned off?
If I'm tracked... not the end of the world, but I would prefer if they ask permission first. And I will always say no.
If that means I can't have facebook, oh well. I don't really use it much anyway.
Facebook is welcome to charge a fee. Just as I'm welcome to stop using it. The present price represents my opinion of the value I get from Facebook.
Fun Fact —
You can get "free" mobile data in Asian countries like the Philippines where they bundle in Facebook for "free". So countless kids and families grow up thinking that Facebook is *the* internet. Facebook is paying the mobile providers for these users. It's disgusting.
You can get "free" mobile data in Asian countries like the Philippines where they bundle in Facebook for "free". So countless kids and families grow up thinking that Facebook is *the* internet. Facebook is paying the mobile providers for these users. It's disgusting.
Paying Facebook to sell your personal information... Let that sink in for a minute.
I'll bet that 80% or more of their addicts would sign up for that.
It is truly astonishing how mind-numbed social media has made today's society. Anything for a click or a like or an emoji...
I'll bet that 80% or more of their addicts would sign up for that.
It is truly astonishing how mind-numbed social media has made today's society. Anything for a click or a like or an emoji...
Netflix spent years perfecting one of the best algorithms to capture user patterns and preferences, and then the data, rather we are sold to producers to inform their cinematic decision making. It doesn't stop there: We pay Netflix to sell our data to other providers (think clothiers, design firms, intelligence aggregators, manufacturers, the list goes on). There is very little daylight between them and FB.
Problem is, even politicians know that Facebook is a great medium to manipulate the public consciousness, so I’m sure Facebook will be one of those “too big to fail.” There will be enough actors wanting to keep Facebook to spread their stuff to let anything happen.
Clicking “nope” everytime that balloon pops up as become a new sort of joy for me since updating to 14.5.
No, you aren't. I've done some searches for my name (the spelling of my first name is less common) and don't pop up. I have had iPhones since the 3G, though.
I pay for YT Premium as I watch more quality content there than NF. Plus the music and ‘keep playing while minimized’, that’s all cool. Most my YT watching is on ATV so the no ads is really a thing there. However, paying for FB? Even with how deep I am in it? No. I have other ways to do what I do there. No.
I was just listening to the latest episode of the Vergecast earlier today and they were discussing how this actually amounts to a minuscule fraction of Facebook’s revenue.
If you have not seen the Creepy Line documentary I recommend it.
It’s about how Google and Facebook use and manipulate there services.
Yes, I see the irony that I am linking to YouTube.
It’s about how Google and Facebook use and manipulate there services.
Yes, I see the irony that I am linking to YouTube.