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Re: Off-Facebook Activity

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Post by pyr0hu » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:11 PM UTC

pictur wrote: post #15

Why do people keep using facebook? I don't want to see this shit anymore.

Keep in touch with family and friends. In my country (hungary) most people use Messenger to communicate. It'd take too much time and hassle to introduce new apps and platforms to my friends to keep in touch with them.

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

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Post by ilikehurdles » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:14 PM UTC

pictur wrote: post #15

Why do people keep using facebook? I don't want to see this shit anymore.

It's for kids to share memes under fake profiles and boomers to share fake news under real profiles.

A hard cut from facebook is surprisingly easy. The biggest challenge is getting over the mentality of fear that it will somehow be challenging.

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

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Post by roddux » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:19 PM UTC

>If you'd like, you can disconnect that information from your account, and it will not be associated with you personally. Specifically no mention that they will delete the data, helpfully combined with no mention that it's trivial to deanonymise such data.

TL;DR: This is a bullshit PR piece to assuage worries that Facebook data-mining the internet. They still are. Move along.

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

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Post by decebalus1 » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:24 PM UTC

pictur wrote: post #15

Why do people keep using facebook? I don't want to see this shit anymore.

I live abroad and it's one of the few ways in which I get to see what my family/friends are up to. I don't post anything or read news articles from Facebook. I just look at baby/vacation/wedding/birthday pics.

I use Facebook in a container tab in Firefox, completely cut off from my regular browsing. Before that, I used to block it using Privacy Badger.

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:26 PM UTC

moneil971 wrote: post #8

high_derivative wrote: post #4

'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.

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Re: Off-Facebook Activity

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Post by la_barba » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:26 PM UTC

high_derivative wrote: post #10

moneil971 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s rolled out in Ireland, South Korea and Spain to start, more countries are coming soon.

Sorry, but my point stands. In Facebook's case, there is absolutely zero reason to assume good intentions, give the benefit of the doubt, have general good-will, or believe its employees regarding privacy aims.

Which social media company would you believe regarding privacy?

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

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Post by elicash » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:27 PM UTC

Facebook deleted a ton of the really valuable ad settings controls I used to prevent bad advertiser behavior somewhat recently. I'd rather have that ability to block advertisers uploading data I didn't give them than this feature.

And all they'd have to do is turn it back on.

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

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Post by chillydawg » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:30 PM UTC

la_barba wrote: post #26

high_derivative wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, but my point stands. In Facebook's case, there is absolutely zero reason to assume good intentions, give the benefit of the doubt, have general good-will, or believe its employees regarding privacy aims.

Which social media company would you believe regarding privacy?

None, obviously.

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

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Post by inflatableDodo » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:30 PM UTC

la_barba wrote: post #26

high_derivative wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, but my point stands. In Facebook's case, there is absolutely zero reason to assume good intentions, give the benefit of the doubt, have general good-will, or believe its employees regarding privacy aims.

Which social media company would you believe regarding privacy?

The Masons.

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

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Post by flattone » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:30 PM UTC

gaogao wrote: post #18

mattkevan wrote: post #12

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…

That's why it's not called clear history anymore...

propose the original comment was more about the behavior of Facebook being mechanized both at interface and internal product culture to be anti traditional Western/free thinking human from the bleeding edge of our ever emerging attention capital economy.