Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information

Post by signal11 » Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 8:30 PM UTC

gonmf wrote: post #261

adpirz wrote: post #239

What's facebook's boiling point? My guess is they'll respond, they'll no longer use 2FA #'s for ads, the damage will have been done, and 99% of the population won't know any of it occurred. We'll repeat this cycle when a fresh revelation occurs months from now, as facebook continues to test how much they can leverage for more ad revenue. But none of it is actually slowing FB down. Its biggest dip in value came from d…

I think platforms like Facebook depend on being "cool" over some demographic. Then other demographics adopt it, time passes, other demographics grow tired of the same old Facebook look their parents also used, and Facebook starts to die. We've seen this as well with other social networks like hi5, myspace, that once dominated entire continents as the preferred social website. Of course they are smart and competent pe…

Post by anfilt » Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 8:38 PM UTC

tialaramex wrote: post #215

anfilt wrote: post #102

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I honestly wish sites would use client side certs or auth via a private key.

Client side certs mean now every user has a verifiable identity. Maybe you're OK with Facebook knowing your full ID, but is it also OK to tell Grindr, Redtube and Amazon? Security Keys are better here. The security key can prove to a site that its the same one as before. "Before what?" Well that's up to the site. In most cases it's going to register one or more keys when you sign up to the site, and then check you st…

Post by cdcfa78156ae5 » Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 8:44 PM UTC

Ari_Ugwu wrote: post #269

jzl wrote: post #224

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Simple: delete your Facebook account. Many of us already have. Nothing will send a stronger message than people doing this en masse. Even if they don't get the message or don't care, it's the only way to protect yourself from their never-ending privacy violations.

This. Though I will say, in my opinion tech companies are more or less wild animals we pretend are domesticated. Nothing is free. Facebook continues to do good for people. Twitter as well. These are invaluable communication channels for many people. I imagine this problem will get fixed about the same time my physical spam mail stops arriving. I'm not holding my breath, given that I can _say_ something to my wife in…

Post by sandov » Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 8:53 PM UTC

anonytrary wrote: post #373

adpirz wrote: post #239

What's facebook's boiling point? My guess is they'll respond, they'll no longer use 2FA #'s for ads, the damage will have been done, and 99% of the population won't know any of it occurred. We'll repeat this cycle when a fresh revelation occurs months from now, as facebook continues to test how much they can leverage for more ad revenue. But none of it is actually slowing FB down. Its biggest dip in value came from d…

> most people remain unaware that FB owns both WhatsApp and IG I am not surprised. If you let Google autocomplete the search "is facebook o" for you, you'll find these autocomplete results in order: 1. is facebook owned by google 2. is facebook on roku 3. is facebook over 4. is facebook offline 5. is facebook overvalued ... 10. is facebook on its way out Seriously, people? "Is Facebook owned by Google?". AFAIK most p…

Post by XJOKOLAT » Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 9:14 PM UTC

zethraeus wrote: post #336

beaconstudios wrote: post #274

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I think that's already taken by Uber's self-driving car division.

Not remotely funny.