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Facebook Takes Out Full-Page Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's iOS Privacy Changes
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To be honest, Apple should go as far as letting me toggle on and off each tracking API for each installed App. I do not see how it is Facebooks business what I am doing in other Apps if I am not even using their service.
The amount of outbound Google, Facebook and whatnot traffic that is sending data back to those platforms as soon as you open most apps, is truly something.
I am surprised the EU isn't up their privacy ass on that yet.
case in point: 325 tracking requests after opening like 5 apps within minutes
The amount of outbound Google, Facebook and whatnot traffic that is sending data back to those platforms as soon as you open most apps, is truly something.
I am surprised the EU isn't up their privacy ass on that yet.
case in point: 325 tracking requests after opening like 5 apps within minutes
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Hey small business owners, you can still target your ads on Facebook. If you’re targeting a certain age group in a certain location who likes certain things, you can still reach that group as long as those people have shared that information on Facebook, either as part of their profile or by their interaction with Facebook.
What’s changed is Facebook has lost the ability to follow those people around the web (on iOS) and add more details to that profile that the user hasn’t intentionally shared.
You’ll be fine.
What’s changed is Facebook has lost the ability to follow those people around the web (on iOS) and add more details to that profile that the user hasn’t intentionally shared.
You’ll be fine.
I’m sure others have said this, but if Facebook is against it,I’m “for” it. Nicely done, Apple!
Is it April 1st? Facebook is an ad company and are toxic to the internet. Let them die.
small business don't have the resources to create profiling engines like Facebook. So Facebook wants to sell theirs (a scaled down version of the one used for Facebook itself.). so not one can Facebook profile everyone to an extreme level. they can also sell profiling services to "small businesses" to improve their revenue. There is no way that it is "OK" that when I search the web for pinball machines on my laptop, advertisements for pinball machines and parts appear on my wife's laptop. I get that you can dump a cookie on my laptop and if I sign into some product or service (amazon, Facebook ETC) but there is no way that IP based tracking like what they are doing. the physical world equivalent would be to have a fleet of drones out there watching everyones front doors for a Chewy delivery. everyone that gets one ends up getting a flyers in the mail for crazypettoys.com. no one would be too thrilled about that... but that is what the internet does you just don't "see" it.
I’m all in support of user privacy but lets remember Apple makes most of it’s money from hardware sales and digital store commissions. Of course they can be hardline on advertising because that’s not how they make their money. People want everything to be free but then complain about ads. Are people willing to pay a monthly fee to use Instagram, Facebook and other social medial platforms? My guess is not.
Scroll is a great answer to this. I can appreciate that they’re at least trying to figure out how to avoid ads. I did have to cancel Scroll because Gizmodo refused to take down their Taboola feed at the bottom, and I was like “why am I paying to only have MOST ads removed?”
You know Facebook if you want to make an argument that tracking allows you to offer "free" services to individuals, make it. Saying "you are doing this for small businesses" just makes you look like the manipulative, uncouth, shameless organization... that I think you are.
Facebook is a huge way for local businesses to reach their customers. I don't use Facebook (or Apple products for that matter) but you have to realize that Facebook has nearly replaced Google for a lot of people when they're looking for local businesses.
Oh boo hoo. Facebook is so scummy that it’s nice to actually see them somewhat threatened by this move. I’m sure they’ll figure something else in their constant attempts at collecting data.
I feel that if companies were not so god awful aggressive about this, maybe things would be different. But they’re always going at you like trying to juice a fruit for every drop of liquid.
I feel that if companies were not so god awful aggressive about this, maybe things would be different. But they’re always going at you like trying to juice a fruit for every drop of liquid.
Facebook has had the most deleterious effect on the social fabric of the internet of any website ever deployed. It's a giant social-control mechanism that should never be used by anyone, anywhere, ever. Delete your Facebook account now.
Why doesn't Apple just make its own Facebook? Ring-fence it to Apple devices with Apple-level privacy. See how Zuckerberg likes a taste of his own thieving medicine.
Instead of hacking other companies products so they can data mine them for profit maybe they should come out with their own free phone paid for by the ads they generate income from? Also, why can't they fix this by simply having a unique number for every copy of the facebook software or every login to their website? They wont get folks who didnt register but it would cover most of their users. If they want more info than that then, no.
this is a great idea by Facebook. I mean, who doesn't read the newspaper these days?
If a business I’ve never worked with can call me a customer than I can call a celebrity I’ve never met my spouse.
I don’t have relationships with businesses. I have transactions.
I don’t have relationships with businesses. I have transactions.