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Facebook Takes Out Full-Page Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's iOS Privacy Changes
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Thanks. I know what Facebooks real agenda is here, I just didn't want to lose the personalized ads.
Facebook, Google, Twitter etc want to be able to be track and monitor you everywhere on the web and don't like Apple interfering, and they also want to be able to track and monitor EVERY time you use their Diem coin.
Their Diem (used to be Libra) coin is the largest, anti-privacy, anti-freedom, anti-liberty trojan horse ever. The "Diem Association"/"Libra Association" is essentially an unregulated central bank that will monitor EVERY transaction in the ledger, freeze, control, inflate the value away or seize your coins at any point. And it will be ONLY the association who can monitor it. Plus you can bet the governments around the world will want in on the ledger to monitor it.
Goodbye privacy for everything if people take up Diem and if Apple doesn't stand up to them for the privacy of everyone else.
At least with the Fed and other central banks there is some control via a vote so that people know the issues with it. (assuming that Facebook, Google and Twitter allow you to criticize the Diem and don't label it as "fake news" or "disputed").
It is centralized, censorable, blocked at a border, tied to fiat, can be frozen at the whim of whatever government can pressure FB. It might just be that FB not liking what you are posting or disagreeing with you. As the last few years have shown, these huge companies (FB, Twitter, Google etc) are behold to the governments and political parities. Do something they don't like, "well your coins are frozen and you can't move them or cash out." Recourse? None since they aren't regulated banks. Think they are following you now with cookies etc? Soon they'll be able to also track what you spend your coins on. Bitcoin will (one hopes shortly) be helping to increase privacy on chain via taproot and extensions..
It might as well be the Petro or one of the other nonsense coins. Anyone who decides to use this is just asking to be controlled, watched and monitored.
Apple standing up to Facebook in this case is important. If they'd stand up to the authoritarians everywhere around the world that would be a good step also.
Their Diem (used to be Libra) coin is the largest, anti-privacy, anti-freedom, anti-liberty trojan horse ever. The "Diem Association"/"Libra Association" is essentially an unregulated central bank that will monitor EVERY transaction in the ledger, freeze, control, inflate the value away or seize your coins at any point. And it will be ONLY the association who can monitor it. Plus you can bet the governments around the world will want in on the ledger to monitor it.
Goodbye privacy for everything if people take up Diem and if Apple doesn't stand up to them for the privacy of everyone else.
At least with the Fed and other central banks there is some control via a vote so that people know the issues with it. (assuming that Facebook, Google and Twitter allow you to criticize the Diem and don't label it as "fake news" or "disputed").
It is centralized, censorable, blocked at a border, tied to fiat, can be frozen at the whim of whatever government can pressure FB. It might just be that FB not liking what you are posting or disagreeing with you. As the last few years have shown, these huge companies (FB, Twitter, Google etc) are behold to the governments and political parities. Do something they don't like, "well your coins are frozen and you can't move them or cash out." Recourse? None since they aren't regulated banks. Think they are following you now with cookies etc? Soon they'll be able to also track what you spend your coins on. Bitcoin will (one hopes shortly) be helping to increase privacy on chain via taproot and extensions..
It might as well be the Petro or one of the other nonsense coins. Anyone who decides to use this is just asking to be controlled, watched and monitored.
Apple standing up to Facebook in this case is important. If they'd stand up to the authoritarians everywhere around the world that would be a good step also.
I run a small business. Facebook is standing up for me? Wow I feel so honoured!
How will I ever be able to keep paying them more ad money, so they can continue to harvest peoples information.
I ditched Facebook ads years ago. Sorry Facebook nice try.
How will I ever be able to keep paying them more ad money, so they can continue to harvest peoples information.
I ditched Facebook ads years ago. Sorry Facebook nice try.
I am on FB a lot (unfortunately it's where the bulk of my photography groups get together) and I rarely (never??) see local ads. I see a lot of ads on my phone where I don't have them blocked, but they are not local companies. They are often things that have no relevance to me, but they are national companies, not local.
They need to make money. If you use an ad blocker and don't buy the overpriced Chinese crap they "review" here you'll be fine.
Screw Facebook! They had no trouble censoring with the now proven wrong "Independent Fact Checkers" to watch me carefully this year.
I don't care how Apple sticks it to them. They deserve it anyway!
I don't care how Apple sticks it to them. They deserve it anyway!
It's Safari's builtin tracker prevention. Just shows which sites are tracking you.
I mean this can’t be real life can it??? Attacking a company for caring about their customers privacy
Yeah, I don't buy any of that stuff really anyways. It's just that most other sites I visit have maybe 2-3 at most, while MacRumors has 10x that amount.
This is the main reason why I use iOS devices rather then Android, Apple may not be perfect but when it comes to privacy and security they are fantastic and stand up for their users. Android on the other hand is a Google operating system, need I say more?
I deleted my Facebook account over 2 years ago after I caught them listening in on my personal conversations.
I had gone to Walmart and my GF had asked me what deodorant I wanted her to grab for me from the Health and Beauty department. I told her “Gillette Cool Wave”. About two hours later I was at home and opened up Facebook. As I was scrolling down my timeline there was an ad for Gillette Cool Wave deodorant. Now I’ve never once searched the internet for that nor did I have Facebook open on my phone or even running in the background when I was at Walmart earlier that day. So I knew then that they were somehow listening in at all times despite my phone being in my pocket with the screen locked and the app not even opened in the background. F them!
I had gone to Walmart and my GF had asked me what deodorant I wanted her to grab for me from the Health and Beauty department. I told her “Gillette Cool Wave”. About two hours later I was at home and opened up Facebook. As I was scrolling down my timeline there was an ad for Gillette Cool Wave deodorant. Now I’ve never once searched the internet for that nor did I have Facebook open on my phone or even running in the background when I was at Walmart earlier that day. So I knew then that they were somehow listening in at all times despite my phone being in my pocket with the screen locked and the app not even opened in the background. F them!
Yeah, because if there’s anything Facebook cares about, it’s the success of small businesses. **** Facebook and **** Mark Zuckerberg.