Not bad, I’d sideload this onto a backup phone and just keep it sitting in a drawer. $20 credit towards my real phone that doesn’t have FB installed lol.
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Facebook Paying Teens $20/Month to Install Data Harvesting VPN App on iPhones
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This notion gets recycled every few years. I'm not sure how I feel about having worked on this (failed) one:
https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/04/13/240866/
a.k.a. "that time I was deposed by David Bois"... (who prosecuted United States vs. Microsoft, and who was charming, BTW. It was a friendly deposition...)
PowerAgent promised to pay consumers for viewing ads. As I recall, the expected payout was to be something like $20. But this was 1998. If you were Bill Gates, or Steve Jobs, the expected payout would have been more.
FWIW, part of my job was dealing with some of the technical details that insured that collected data would be both anonymous and transparent to the user. (The is, the user could discover what information was collected.)
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No it's dead, at least Apple tries unlike Google and Facebook(the worst one) who data mine you. This artcile shows that Facebook did not learn from its mistake. The facetime bug is going to be fixed in a week(pretty fast by industry standards), while google knew of the google+ bug for years before shutting it down.
Iphone is not all secure, but is the most secure OS.
huh, thats funny cause it was apple that removed that app from its app store that made facebook to find this solution.
While google probably know where you live, what u buy and tracks your every search.
Some people....
There is no response from Apple that would be appropriate here other than deactivating Facebook’s developer account and pulling all of their apps from the store.
Even if only for a few days it would be a powerful message that crap like this shouldn’t stand.
Even if only for a few days it would be a powerful message that crap like this shouldn’t stand.
This is some predatory crap. To catch the predator episode.
Do you think they package it that way? They make it sexy, where it's "you're helping" or someone might actually not think that they don't have anything to worry about.
In fact, if you are incentivised by $20, it's unlikely you care about privacy because you have other more pressing issues.
Facebook is a cancer and must be removed.
Wow, the depths to which this evil empire and its boss will sink knows no end; the only people more evil are those paying facebook tp use the data for their ends.
Creep, peeping tom - and making money from it, a pimp; Zuckerberg.
Can anyone start a boycott list of people who advertise on Facebook - the revenue stream he smugly told the Congress was his source of income?
Yes, they make their money from data.
Creep, peeping tom - and making money from it, a pimp; Zuckerberg.
Can anyone start a boycott list of people who advertise on Facebook - the revenue stream he smugly told the Congress was his source of income?
Yes, they make their money from data.
Unsuspecting teens. Facebook should be shut down. They are digital data predators. Where is Chris Hansen?
I could see them offering people money to keep them on the platform. People will settle for pennies on the dollar of what it's worth to Facebook to sell ads on their platform to marketers.
Under Steve Job's leadership, Apple made a huge decision to NOT support "Flash" content on their mobile devices saying it was inefficient and a resource hog. This is so so much worse. How can Tim Cook and Apple support this? Apple is probably the only hardware/software company big enough to actually be effective at not only condemning Facebook unethical practices but doing something about it. Come on Tim, show some guts.
Just another reason why big investors favor Facebook over Apple. Zuckerberg will do anything for profits while Tim Cook only goes but so far. Data harvesting is extremely profitable and Facebook knows most consumers don't have concerns about privacy or security. Getting paid for giving away your security and privacy is icing on the cheesecake.
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Not going to happen. Most consumers don't care what companies due with their data as long as they're getting some free social or media services. Besides, most consumers are completely addicted to social services and need their daily fix.