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Re: Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes

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Post by naiveai »

notyourwork wrote: post #3

Why would anyone agree to this? I don’t see a benefit to letting Facebook or any company track me across the internet. When did we ever decide this was what consumers wanted? Every time this topic comes up I check Facebooks stock price and realize how detached people are from facebooks revenue driven by the advertisement market.

So that the ads are more personalized. I know this sounds weird, but if I'm going to get ads anyway, I'd like them to potentially be products I'm going to maybe have a use for and might make my life easier.

I get the privacy implications, but asking "why would anyone agree to this" is kind of narrow-minded.

Re: Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes

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Post by 1123581321 »

ArmandGrillet wrote: post #13

Wow, those encouragements are very weak. "Get ads that are more personalized", "Support businesses that rely on ads to reach customers": why would I support businesses relying on that when only 1 out of 5 ads in my feed is not garbage? These encouragements make me think that Facebook seems to believe that their ads are useful, which is a bit insane from a user perspective.

I’m not on Facebook so I can’t speak to what you personally see. However, I think the “support small business” angle is going to be somewhat compelling. I have, for example, two friends who are starting a niche business, offering a good and ethical service, and reaching people in that niche through Facebook and Instagram ads. The customers they find love what they’re doing and happily paying. If I had Facebook, I could see doing my small part to help them find a few more of those types of good businesses succeed.

I also kind of despise Facebook, hence no account, so I don’t mind if this permission screen fails. :)

Re: Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes

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Post by Nextgrid »

sneak wrote: post #16
notyourwork wrote: post #3

Why would anyone agree to this? I don’t see a benefit to letting Facebook or any company track me across the internet. When did we ever decide this was what consumers wanted? Every time this topic comes up I check Facebooks stock price and realize how detached people are from facebooks revenue driven by the advertisement market.

Millions of people already agreed to this: this is how every iPhone works right now, and always has. Apple shipped this tracking feature in the first place.

They didn't agreed per-se, it was just a default and Apple should be shamed for this.

Re: Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes

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Post by drran »

notyourwork wrote: post #3

Why would anyone agree to this? I don’t see a benefit to letting Facebook or any company track me across the internet. When did we ever decide this was what consumers wanted? Every time this topic comes up I check Facebooks stock price and realize how detached people are from facebooks revenue driven by the advertisement market.

Better ads.

Re: Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes

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Post by ATsch »

notyourwork wrote: post #3

Why would anyone agree to this? I don’t see a benefit to letting Facebook or any company track me across the internet. When did we ever decide this was what consumers wanted? Every time this topic comes up I check Facebooks stock price and realize how detached people are from facebooks revenue driven by the advertisement market.

This is said so often it's become a platitude, but: Your free labor of creating and curating things people want to look at is the product. It's the companies bidding on access to content you're willing to look at, in hopes of changing your behaviour, that are the consumers.

Re: Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes

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Post by Nextgrid »

JMTQp8lwXL wrote: post #14

The button saying "Ask App Not to Track": is it binding or non-binding? If I kindly asked an app to not track, I'm fairly certain the app would tell me to pound sand.

"Ask App Not to Track" just means the app will be denied access to the IDFA (which you can already do by turning on "Limit ad tracking" in settings). It's worded like that because this can't prevent the app from using something else (IP address or device fingerprinting) to track you.

Re: Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes

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Post by mensetmanusman »

notyourwork wrote: post #3

Why would anyone agree to this? I don’t see a benefit to letting Facebook or any company track me across the internet. When did we ever decide this was what consumers wanted? Every time this topic comes up I check Facebooks stock price and realize how detached people are from facebooks revenue driven by the advertisement market.

I would rather get advertisements about tech toys than get advertisements about debeers diamonds.
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