Yes, indeed. Fours years and counting. Don’t miss it at all.
My rule of thumb is to run ad blockers and anything that requires me to turn them off is something that I can live without.
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Yes, indeed. Fours years and counting. Don’t miss it at all.
My rule of thumb is to run ad blockers and anything that requires me to turn them off is something that I can live without.
Fork ads. You can't take a poop without ads popping up in your face. Fry, from Futurama said it best:
Leela: Didn't you have ad's in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
Leela: Didn't you have ad's in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
No, Facebook cares plenty about its customers as these sadface emails show. It's just that its customers are the ad companies. Its users are the product.
Deleted a long time ago and haven’t missed it a bit. Political Astro turfing and people complaining. Who wants that in their life?
I don't use FB on any IOS device - just browser on MBP. However, I'd love to know how apps such as games know my location so they can provide me local ads. I'm sure other apps do the same thing today that FB does.
I really hope this works as it is supposed to
I really hope this works as it is supposed to
This post wins the internet today
That's all I am asking for, just to be asked if I want to be tracked. Some consumers may desire this feature, that's their business. If your business is based on something that most users would opt out of, and that forces you to sneak it in so they don't opt out of it, then your business model should be re-evaluated.
Yep been of for several months now, kinda calming. I only had family members on my facebook, if I need to contacy them they all have a phone (text) or email
So it says they ask the app not to track... that's not actually blocking tracking. Correct? Do apps have to follow that request strictly? For example, I have my browsers set to request that sites do not track me, but I know many sites still do.
what's insane about this is that you already know they will spend tons of money to hire scores of engineers to pick apart the APIs to try to get around this blocking rather than shifting their business model to one slightly less reliant on privacy invasions.
Really need to reword that.
Your data will probably only be used to deliver personalized ads to you. Maybe.
Good! Facebook’s been stealing our data for how many years now? I’d be happy to negotiate a contract for rights to my data Mark and Sheryl.
Not necessarily. It would be unwise to clutter the feeds much more (maybe a little, yes). It would be damaging and there would definitely be a point where people visit less frequently from being inundated, I would imagine...
Have you found an alternative for staying in touch with friends and relatives? A long time ago, Google tried to create an alternative - Hangout - but it never succeeded. The problem was that everybody was on FB already and it was 'good enough' (sort of like the initial IE vs. Netscape) that none of my friends moved over - eventually I got tired of double-posting everything and ran back to FB, tail between the legs.
This was maybe 5-10 years ago. Maybe an alternative has emerged and people are fed up enough with FB to move to it now? I know of none...
Thank god!
Hopefully this will force FB and others to stop spying on us and create a voluntary system.
I have no problems with providing them with a selection of interests voluntarily as long as it's easy to update that list (I could be truthful or I could lie, but the ads should respect that list)
Hopefully this will force FB and others to stop spying on us and create a voluntary system.
I have no problems with providing them with a selection of interests voluntarily as long as it's easy to update that list (I could be truthful or I could lie, but the ads should respect that list)
