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Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#31
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.

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Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#32

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?

Purism: https://librem.one/

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#33
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.

It’s to keep a loose connection with distant people and organize private events and find out about non-personal events and happenings.

Just because the people you added on facebook filled it with bullshit, doesn’t mean it’s like that for everyone.

I’d love to get away from them, but I have yet to find a workable alternative.

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#34
post #5

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.

From what I understand, it will actually create a shadow profile not linked to your real profile, instead of actually not tracking you. (I have the french version, which basically says : 'you can disconnect tracking informations from your actual account if you desire')

So there's no change for people not using facebook, you'll be tracked like before no matter what.

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#36

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?

Y Combinator?

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#37
This seems nearly useless. It doesn't remove the data when you clear it. It simply "disconnects it from your user ID". But we've seen before that the collected data has so much personally identifiable information in it, that the user ID isn't needed anyway. So in reality, this does nothing. And Facebook absolutely knows this.

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#38
> If you’d like, you can disconnect that information from your account, and it will not be associated with you personally.

“But we still keep it and the entire unique fingerprint”

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#39
Hey Guys,

We here at Facebook realized you don't trust our apps, so we made another app that makes you think our apps are safe. Despite this just being another app within our portfolio of tracking tools. Please download and install, otherwise the other apps may not work eventually. Trust us. ಠ_ಠ

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