This sounds so similar to the engineering of the notifications UI they have done over the past few years. When they say they’ve “given users more control”, yes, they’ve added toggles to that screen, but they’ve engineered the whole thing to take control away and force people into an all or nothing decision where Facebook has the ability to serve you a notification when they feel like you should be engaging.
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#112In the video she said that the website sends data about you to Facebook. This is incorrect. Facebook is the one doing the collecting or the purchasing of your data from 3rd party collectors. I try to post this on every Facebook related post: Leave Facebook. You'll thank yourself a year from now.
If you leave facebook you can't access the "clear history" feature, so they can track you and keep that information forever. Facebook is a morally bankrupt company and the only real fix is to black hole their many domains.
Yes of course. Blackholing is step 2.
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#113Hmm, 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…
And? Ads will no longer be targeted to that user with this information. You've identified a distinction without a difference.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Block the memes at the source. Each time I see it, I block it. If the people on your page are like mine, they are reposting from these meme groups and not manually uploading these pictures. The result is my feed is pretty free of this garbage. My block list is probably over 100 of these stupid groups. I wish it could be exported and shared.
I used to regularly block pages and posts that reached my feed that were from entities who weren’t in my immediate network. Pages people liked, news articles and their organizations. All these things that make Facebook money. I stopped reacting to anything that wasn’t made by someone in my network and cleared out my generated “interests” multiple times, but they’d always come back. After being off it for a couple of…
I haven't seen anything come back after I block it. But I've only been doing this for about six months. I use the "Block all posts from XXX" option.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Purism: https://librem.one/
Any social with a monthly fee is not going to hit the same network criticality that makes Facebook reign supreme. Attracting people to a new service is hard enough tell them it'll cost 50$ a year and it's hopeless.
The network is not the same thing as the provider. Anyone can use Mastodon for free, so Purism is part of a larger network than just Purism.
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#117I'm glad Facebook chose the name that they did. Hopefully enough people will ask, " why does Facebook care about my activity off Facebook? "
If you don't read it too closely, it sounds like an advert for the very concept of doing activities away from Facebook, which made me chuckle.
“Exciting features include: Cycling through woods! Reading a story in a book made of paper! Now you can control what you see, do and think!”
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#119All I want is a clear answer from someone at facebook. Why can't I choose to delete data about me from your database? I don't even nec need to be able to see it or do it at a granular level, though that would be nice. All I want to be able to do is say delete this.
Can I delete a private message from your database?
Can I delete your record of a status I wrote from your database?
Can I delete access logs from a website that was using a FB pixel from your database?
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#120Hmm, 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…
Anyone still using Facebook at this point is insane or has some direct financial motivation to continue using it. I don't know what else people need to see to stop using it.
I use it to keep in touch with distant family and friends, and for the messenger, and find your assertion hilarious. Even if the twelve Firefox extensions blocking and sandboxing the hell out of it will somehow fail, so what? A toaster ad will keep following me around for weeks on end, and won't be seen because of ad blocking? Or maybe the very valuable insight that I subscribe and sometimes like my city hall and my local cafe's Facebook page will be used to target me with fascist advertising and bring down our democracy? Give me a break. It's a perfectly acceptable compromise for the marginal convenience of having a bunch of contracts in one place.