Facebook's New App Prompt Will Encourage Users to Accept App and Website Tracking

[Nütztjanix]

You quoted me and specifically bolded "a business you share information with (say you purchased something through) should have the right to use your data to advertise" and said that's a screwed point of view.

I demonstrated how a business have been doing this since... the start of capitalism — optimizing their business by offering their products and services to their most engaged audience. How is it not comparable? What do you think advertising does?

Trust me, nobody wants your or my data, nobody cares about what we post on facebook. Businesses just want to use your data (that you shared with them, when you engaged in a transaction of offering money for the service/product they provided to you) to find more people like you to offer products and services to.

You whole premise is wrong. An ice cream shop discovering that young people love ice cream and using that as a basis for advertising is a whole lot different from someone I didn't do business with (Facebook) collecting every single bit of information available (even the most sensitive ones) to build detailed profiles.

 

[Abazigal]

All this debate even raises the question - why does Facebook even need to collect so much data about us just to serve us ads? Seems like overkill.

 

[idobric]

I agree with everyone that Facebook or any other internet app should never track its users.
But, let’s not forget that all these are FREE apps. Apple doesn’t track you but they don’t offer free iPhones.
So fine, let them stop tracking you and in return you pay them a monthly fee or delete the app.
Everything has a consequence.

 

[Oceanwaves]

Why would anyone use Facebook ? The arrogance of Zuckerberg is beyond normal ,this is sociopath towards psychopath material, the proof is his " threats to inflict pain on Apple " reportedly to his staff according to the WSJ. This guy needs Judicial supervision , no wonder he gives Congress & Parties millions in Campaign Donations to look the other way, what an embarrassment. America is a great country , in my opinion it needs to reject this type of organized Private Data abuse & profiteering .

 

[fathergll]

Tell that to the Quest 2 which was a required purchase for some classes this semester.

Yep. I have a Quest 2 but ways around that. Signup with new Facebook account with fake email and use a burner number for the verification code like Google voice.

 

[fathergll]

There was two catalysts that forced me to take privacy more seriously starting around 15 years ago or so.

When Google's search engine got really advanced and I found that a quick search on my name found messages I wrote back in the late 90s. It was nothing bad but it freaked me out that this info could be pulled up by anyone in a quick search.

When Myspace sold/gave my info to peekyou(i got it removed).

That was it for me. At that point it was burner emails, names, vpn. Not saying it perfect but I'm not going to hand them my profile on a silver platter like 99% of people.

 

[NufSaid]

As a user, I will block the tracking.

As a business owner that does ads, I am hoping my customers don't .