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Facebook Employees Criticize Campaign Against Apple in Leaked Comments
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This just in: "Facebook desperately looking for more feet to shoot itself in."
When has Facebook ever cared about small businesses?
They introduced a feature that forced small business to pay Facebook just to see all the data about the users who joined their own business page!
In both of their ‘attacks’ on Apple via the full-page spreads, they were only concerned about themselves - not the internet. Cookies and tracking have existed beyond and before Facebook, and the option to opt in or out is there.
They should have just spun the positive angle and told people why it might be a good option to opt in to tracking.
They introduced a feature that forced small business to pay Facebook just to see all the data about the users who joined their own business page!
In both of their ‘attacks’ on Apple via the full-page spreads, they were only concerned about themselves - not the internet. Cookies and tracking have existed beyond and before Facebook, and the option to opt in or out is there.
They should have just spun the positive angle and told people why it might be a good option to opt in to tracking.
A handful of comments unbalanced by not being able to see the entire feed. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, at least FB let their employees have one. I am pretty sure if it was Apple people would be fired for comments like this from their employees, that really is the type of company they are when it comes to protecting their brand.
No, not a fan of Facebook, it's a cancer and I don't use it.
No, not a fan of Facebook, it's a cancer and I don't use it.
So basically Facebook is every Washington politician ever: Telling you they're "for" you while they scoop your data and fill their pockets, and going directly in contrast to the worker bees that keep it alive.
I'm not even on Facebook or Instagram, why should I be tracked by them? Especially if it is done without my consent. Screw Facebook! It's great that Apple is doing it!
I'm old enough now to have witnessed the same small-business arguments put forth by the newspaper/print industry decades ago. Technology has changed but the arguments have not.
Honestly, the Facebook employees generally whine about a lot more than the average employee. However, this is a complicated subject than the employees are letting on. Personally, I would like Apple to continue to add the prompt of “ask app not to track”, but I would request Apple to change the other option to “Allow tracking for relevant ads”. I think that being fully informed of the purpose of the tracking is going to have more people that enjoy relevant ads reconsider, whereas the current prompt of “Allow tracking” is likely going to misleadingly scare people away accidentally that want relevant ads.
This is REALLY interesting. It shows that the lack of awareness in Facebook seems to be at the top, rather than the employees themselves. It makes you wonder what kind of things are put forward as ideas from employees and middle managers, which are then cut by the top brass.
Are Facebook capable of being less evil if you replace the top? This suggests there is hope for that.
Are Facebook capable of being less evil if you replace the top? This suggests there is hope for that.
Remember when some of us who had TheFacebook in college said opening it up to everyone would ruin it and was a terrible idea? Turns out we were right...
Facebook has done more damage in the last 4 years than any other media outlet, including Fox News. I will never use another Facebook product EVER! I praise Apple in this fight, Apple sells products not peoples data.
How is Apple supposed to determine what the tracking is for? All they see is tracking. It could be for relevant ads, or it could be for political data mining (e.g., Cambridge Analytica), or maybe a venture capital firm fund buys the tracking data to analyze it for insights on which companies are popular enough to invest in. Relevant ads are just the tip of the tracking iceberg, and Apple has no way to determine what the data will ultimately be used for.
I think the way they have it phrased now is exactly broad enough and they shouldn't change it.
In my opinion, Facebook should not be split up, although they should be blocked from buying up future competition. It's just a bunch of websites and apps, for God's sake. Anyone can make the next Facebook, and they will. It's just a social network of the moment, like Instagram. TikTok, BigBong whatever... I honestly don't think people will use Facebook as much in 10 years' time. Lots of intelligent people spend a lot of time trying to invent something to f.. up Facebook and they will succeed in time.
Which was exactly one of the comments from the FB employee (and mine if anyone's keeping track, ha): "what's the problem with Facebook NOT whining about giving users the choice about being tracked? Why can't it be positively advertised that allowing cross site tracking will give relevant ads, and allow the user to make the choice. It just makes it look like what we do at Facebook is wrong and we think it's better to hide it from people"
I know, right. Like 'small businesses' Home Depot, Best Buy, and Lowes. Those struggling small businesses. How they can stay in business during this pandemic is such a David v Goliath story. It gets me right here. (fist to chest over heart)
I think Zuck lives in an extremely sheltered world. It's almost as if he's not capable of listening. Or he's a complete idiot.
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