Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox

Post by bryan_w » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 2:58 PM UTC

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Significant portions of NYT's reporting have been highly misleading, to the extent that it's difficult to conclude it wasn't intentional. "Facebook allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent, the records show, and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages." [0] Netflix and Spotify have Messenger plugins that allo…

I'm confused. Netflix and Spotify did have the ability to read anyone's private messages. That's what they reported, and as far as I know none of the involved parties disputed that. The point isn't that somebody at Spotify was sitting there reading everyone's messages. The point is that they could have been doing that, and Facebook had nothing in place to know if they were doing that, and none of the users sharing a…

Post by tathougies » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:10 PM UTC

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I feel comparing big tobacco to a service that lets you talk with your friends and keep a timeline of your life is a bit disproportionate.

Most of my friends that still smoke will straight up tell you the only reason they do it is for the social interactions that happen while smoking. I don't think it's that different.

Post by jniedrauer » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:24 PM UTC

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Have you ever looked at what exactly those facebook login buttons load? I don't feel safe browsing sites with facebook integration anymore unless I'm running uMatrix or am in a container.

Does uBlock stop Facebook tracking? Or is there such a thing as Faceblock?

Post by tmontana » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:47 PM UTC

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I used to be a fan of Facebook, but I was never obsessed with it. I even used to work there. I'm over it. It's useful for groups, some of the ads really are useful, it's nice to sometimes keep up with people that are far away, but the news feed has had done way more harm than good for our society, including my own life. After the 2016 Election, Facebook posts lead to so much drama in my family that certain "branches"…

>> The only reason I want it to succeed is because I own stock from when I worked there. I know the feeling as I HAD the same situation with amazon. The problem with such thinking is that yes you'll make some money off of it by enhancing human misery but when I sell the stock I will still be a human being. Fortunately, when you are not a part of the company there is a easy justification to sell, its that you are no l…

Post by x3n0ph3n3 » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 7:52 PM UTC

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My wife has been doing taxes for a few people at Facebook (including engineers and PMs) -- many of them make an absurd amount of money. (>$800k / year)

I'm not sure if it's a fiduciary duty of an accountant not to disclose this kind of stuff, but it should be.