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Facebook knows you’re gay before you do

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Re: Facebook knows you’re gay before you do

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Post by icebraining »

StavrosK wrote: post #56
icebraining wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never. I don't have a Facebook account, but it'd be pretty naive of me to assume they don't have a profile on me as well, especially since they've already admitted doing so[1]. [1]: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-11-15/fa...

They can't track you if you use Ghostery.

Assuming the Ghostery team has identified and coded in all the trackers they use (and that assumes Ghostery isn't actually spying on its own users, and selling that to FB - I don't think that's likely, but who knows?).

Re: Facebook knows you’re gay before you do

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Post by baak »

rayiner wrote: post #47
moe wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bullshit.

Studies have not been able to show negative effects from moderate drinking in pregnancy. The medical community tells women not to drink because they have not been able to show that any level of drinking is "safe". http://palatepress.com/2012/02/wine/light-drinking-during-pr... The medical profession is positively paleolithic and incredibly patriarchal when it comes to pregnancy. There is no rational sense of weighing…

Inconclusive either way is different from 'shown drinking isn't a problem'. So technically, he's right, even if a little too aggressive about it.

Re: Facebook knows you’re gay before you do

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Post by duck »

amirmc wrote: post #5
TDL wrote: post #2

I remember a while back that Target had to back of a similar approach when it began sending out coupons to women that they suspected (w/ apparently a high degree of accuracy) were pregnant. The main anecdote was about a father who found out his daughter was pregnant because they started to receive the coupons. Target eventually backed off this approach (at least for newly pregnant women) because many of their custome…

I don't think they stopped it. Just adjusted it so the offers we're alongside random stuff (eg discounts on lawn mowers). That way people wouldn't freak out (presumably because they didn't know how much the company really knew about them) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h... Edit: Worth posting the whole quote (just found it). “With the pregnancy products, though, we learned that some women…

Off-topic, but since when did Target start selling lawn mowers?

Re: Facebook knows you’re gay before you do

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Post by madsravn »

I'm totally pro-facebook: It's a nice, free platform where people can share pictures and chat (the chat is awesome since everybody has facebook).

But someday people are gonna realize how much information they have given facebook about themselves. It's like people go out of their ways to have such a complete profile as possible...

Re: Facebook knows you’re gay before you do

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Post by jrockway »

camus wrote: post #75
a_c_s wrote: post #73

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Nothing wrong with being gay/lgbt. But in many states in the US you can legally be fired or denied housing on the basis of being lgbt.

really ? i thought USA was the land of the free ...

The law hasn't caught up to today's social standards quite yet. Just like you can fire someone because you don't like how they dress, you can fire someone for being gay, as choice in clothes and sexual orientation aren't "protected classes":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class

Re: Facebook knows you’re gay before you do

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Post by daxelrod »

mgkimsal wrote: post #74
tomkinstinch wrote: post #68

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Is there a way to opt-out of this without paying cash for everything (and avoiding "store discount" cards)?

don't tie a store discount card to your real name/email/phone numbers?

Target ties purchases to your credit card, without needing a store discount card.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...;

Re: Facebook knows you’re gay before you do

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Post by PommeDeTerre »

camus wrote: post #75
a_c_s wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing wrong with being gay/lgbt. But in many states in the US you can legally be fired or denied housing on the basis of being lgbt.

really ? i thought USA was the land of the free ...

It may not be pleasant, but it just isn't possible to have any sort of real freedom without also having the freedom to discriminate.

The moment one person is prohibited from discriminating against another, freedom is lost.

Re: Facebook knows you’re gay before you do

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Post by mgkimsal »

daxelrod wrote: post #86
mgkimsal wrote: post #74

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don't tie a store discount card to your real name/email/phone numbers?

Target ties purchases to your credit card, without needing a store discount card. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h... ;

yeah, if you want to do that. and I do - we get 5% off everything.

Re: Facebook knows you’re gay before you do

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Post by wololo »

rayiner wrote: post #47
moe wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bullshit.

Studies have not been able to show negative effects from moderate drinking in pregnancy. The medical community tells women not to drink because they have not been able to show that any level of drinking is "safe". http://palatepress.com/2012/02/wine/light-drinking-during-pr... The medical profession is positively paleolithic and incredibly patriarchal when it comes to pregnancy. There is no rational sense of weighing…

speaking of probability, doesn't having a drink dramatically raise the probability of having a drink again soon? isn't human behavior the least reliable piece of the metaphor, not the spotty scientific research?
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