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Facebook's New PR Campaign Promotes Personalized Advertising Ahead of Apple's App Tracking Transparency Launch
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They had partnered with HTC and did have some interesting concepts. The analysis back in the day (which I just reviewed) basically indicated: 1) Not everyone uses facebook or wants it at the center, 2) phone itself was meh hardware-wise, 3) didn’t offer an experience that couldn’t largely be replicated on existing phones, 4) competition was just that much better overall.
Sniff, i am so moved by this. I can barely see my keyboard through the tears; Add tracking, a selfless act on the part of fb, for the good of small businesses everywhere.
pass me another Kleenex . . .
pass me another Kleenex . . .
It all adds up. Zuckerberg and company want to profit even more off the willing sheep to the slaughter.
That ad is supposed to make people more amenable to being tracked? Wow. Apple should run that in the prompt window.
I enjoyed the video editing of this ad, but Facebook seriously need to truly look at themselves in the mirror a lot longer. There are so many issues and yet Facebook doesn’t even pay attention to what the consumer needs/wants anymore. This is just trying to sugar coat everything so they can continue to harvest information.
When executives try to make a "cool" ad. Cringe.
Perhaps someone should make a counter-ad to remind people of Cambridge Analytica and how Facebook's "personalized" ads were used to spread targeted disinformation.
Perhaps someone should make a counter-ad to remind people of Cambridge Analytica and how Facebook's "personalized" ads were used to spread targeted disinformation.
MMmmmm, I wouldn’t characterize it that way exactly. It started out as a way for people to creep on other people. The difference is now business is creeping?
Seriously. Personalized ads are stupid and don't function well. 99% of the ads I see are for things I already own or subscribe to. I'm getting really tired of seeing subscription service ads for services I already subscribe to like Disney+ or Hulu.
I want to know WHO are the people personalized ads work on? Is it the same people that have just enough money left over after responding (WHAT LUCK) to three separate Nigerian princes (who just need a small amount of money from them to help get access to a larger sum)?
Everything I need to know about Facebook and the people that run it:
Don’t be a “dumb ****”
This is pathetic. And I love it. The ratio, 341 downvotes to 14 upvotes, tells me that most people see right through this nauseating attempt to frame their extreme tracking measures as more valuable to small business & the consumer than it is to Facebook. The fact that people are being forced to see it gives me hope. Suckerberg wants to “inflict pain on Apple” for this? Well I for one want Fb to know who’s side I’m on.... data privacy rights & internet freedom. He can go zuck himself.
This is some serious 1984 Ministry of Truth NewSpeak brain washing 🤣🤣🤣
Seriously, Facebook's only commodity is user's personal data and that commodity resources is drying up. People are no longer "dumb *****" and they too choose to cover their laptop web cams!
We don't need FB portal to discover things on the internet, we discovered them via tv, magazines, word of mouth, sites, search engines, and as far as respectable social platforms there is the free and FOSS pixelfed and mastodon. We don't need you your "gateway" !
Its no issue but Instagram is a really tough one. There are people who actually make a living on it and there is no real alternative. Other options are just not as polished. You can easily replace Whatsapp.
Seriously, Facebook's only commodity is user's personal data and that commodity resources is drying up. People are no longer "dumb *****" and they too choose to cover their laptop web cams!
We don't need FB portal to discover things on the internet, we discovered them via tv, magazines, word of mouth, sites, search engines, and as far as respectable social platforms there is the free and FOSS pixelfed and mastodon. We don't need you your "gateway" !
Its no issue but Instagram is a really tough one. There are people who actually make a living on it and there is no real alternative. Other options are just not as polished. You can easily replace Whatsapp.
I agree there is resistance needed. However, I don't agree that they should stop doing it. I think they should get permission for how/when they do it....and not by making Gmail free and putting it in the T&C's Getting rid of personalized advertising entirely I believe is throwing out the baby with the bath water.
Yes, it is that if you assume that the “baby” in this case is a demonic entity. And I’m all for that
Bad analogy time! I feel it’s like child labor. For a growing family it’s the “most effective way of enhancing the total earning capacity of the family unit, but we reject that effectiveness because of the likelihood that families/children could be exploited.