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'The off-Facebook activity setting isn't currently available to you right now.' Smart, announcing it without it being usable, so when it's silently rolled out later people will have forgotten about it. Never change, FB.
It’s rolled out in Ireland, South Korea and Spain to start, more countries are coming soon.
The product manager in charge said: “people were able to mentally connect that with how their browser controls work, where they can clear their history. We clearly state that … the information isn’t connected to your account.” [0]
So, they deliberately designed it to make people think it works like a browser's clear history feature (which does delete everything), but instead, it 'disconnects' the data (but doesn't delete anything).
Such a bunch of weasels.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/20/facebook-...
This is the clear history feature that was announced a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16969325 . See also the engineering post that explains some of the challenges in implementing this: https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/off-facebook-...
So how will this work if I don’t use a Facebook account?
That's my question as well, they aren't saying anything about shadow profiles. It seems like a ploy to get people to create accounts just to 'stop' tracking.
EDIT: Any moment now, I suppose it might take a while to type up a thorough, elucidating answer.
Hmm, a clear history feature that does nothing of the sort. Sounds like Facebook! The product manager in charge said: “people were able to mentally connect that with how their browser controls work, where they can clear their history. We clearly state that … the information isn’t connected to your account.” [0] So, they deliberately designed it to make people think it works like a browser's clear history feature (whi…
So how will this work if I don’t use a Facebook account?
That's my question as well, they aren't saying anything about shadow profiles. It seems like a ploy to get people to create accounts just to 'stop' tracking.
So if you don't have FB, presumably you already don't have UID, so you're on equal footing with Facebook users that use this future. They are tracked, but tracking data is not connected to their UIDs.