Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy
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Re: Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy
#2The fact that Facebook is open and proud of its end-user hostility in service to the business interests of advertisers is surely a turning point.
What kind of professional integrity would allow someone to continue working on a product that doesn't even pretend to serve the best interests of its end-users?
I seriously worry about the number of technology standards boards and governance groups that purport to represent the interests of end-users but are actually made up of (and lobbied by) people with this kind of "integrity".
Re: Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy
#3Like a squealing pig
Re: Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy
#4Just because there is now a multi-billion-dollar industry based on the abject betrayal of our privacy doesn’t mean the sociopaths who built it have any right whatsoever to continue getting away with it.
This is fair enough as it goes but remember it's coming from one of the biggest cheerleaders of a company that became the richest in the world while taking away user freedoms we used to take for granted on general purpose computing devices.
I'd love to see Facebook taken down several pegs but I think the rest of FAANG is overdue for some medicine too.
Re: Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy
#5Whenever they want to make a statement, they use newspaper ads, what does it tell you about FB Ads?
Re: Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy
#6Facebook is a terrible company. I recommend reading this recent Atlantic article comparing Facebook to the nuclear doomsday machine. It may be a bit overblown in it's comparison, but I think it makes some very valid points:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/faceb...
Re: Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy
#7> Users can easily choose to keep providing Facebook (and anyone else) with all the information they want. Or they can choose not to.
This part hits the nail on the head. Facebook is intentionally being misleading in this campaign. I’ve had the IDFA turned off on my phone for years. Now apps have to ask for it individually. If apps have to prompt to access it, and this benefits small businesses so much, wouldn’t people agree to it with the right framing? Why doesn’t Facebook provide a method in its tracking SDKs that shows an interstitial about how this is good for small business before asking users if they want to be tracked?
Of course, Facebook would never do that. That’s because “informed consent” with adware doesn’t really exist... once people actually understand the scope of ad tracking networks... they don’t want it.
I’m not even against the concept of targeted advertising. Facebook’s first party properties are fine venues for it. I’m even (generally) ok with an advertiser retargeting me based on information they have about me. I wish that Facebook was prohibited from scooping up data in every other app I use and combining it with other data that they purchase. You can have targeted advertising without a massive surveillance dragnet.
Re: Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy
#8Re: Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy
#9Just because there is now a multi-billion-dollar industry based on the abject betrayal of our privacy doesn’t mean the sociopaths who built it have any right whatsoever to continue getting away with it. This is fair enough as it goes but remember it's coming from one of the biggest cheerleaders of a company that became the richest in the world while taking away user freedoms we used to take for granted on general pur…
You can easily replace your apple products, but not your social network apps. all your friends have to switch, too
Re: Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy
#10The fact that Facebook is open and proud of its end-user hostility in service to the business interests of advertisers is surely a turning point. What kind of professional integrity would allow someone to continue working on a product that doesn't even pretend to serve the best interests of its end-users? I seriously worry about the number of technology standards boards and governance groups that purport to represent…
They're like the tabaco industry complaining about having
their products clearly labeled as adictive and carcenogenic.
Doing so probably harmed small Mom & Pop tobaconist's bottom line too.