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Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Re: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Post by pacala »

ohashi wrote: post #35
zerostar07 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not a fair analogy, because the bottle cap game does not need that information. It's more close to a doctor asking you about your and your family's medical past. If you trust the doctor its fine, if you don't it's a hard situation to figure out. Edit: this is not supposed to be a direct analogy (obviously Facebook does not have your medical records yet, afaik). Games want to have the ability to find out who is…

What games are you claiming need the same level of information about me as a doctor? Frankly, your analogy is ridiculous. Facebook apps aren't integral parts of my health and well-being. They don't need to delve into my personal life. They want to. That's one way to exploit me to advertisers. But a Doctor absolutely needs to, for my own well being. Games and the advertisers they serve don't have that claim.

But how can advertisers target their ads to your special interests if they don't know everything about you? Advertisers are just as essential to your well being as the doctor is, if not even more.

Re: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Post by RexRollman »

jasonkester wrote: post #3

Anybody know how to read techcrunch articles on an iPad these days? I get fifteen seconds of article, then get redirected to that "download our app" thing. No combination of back/forward or clicking "no, let me read the article" results in me being able to actually read the article. I'm not about to pollute my iPad just for one site, so I guess from here on out I just have to make a mental note to stay away from tech…

That is a real problem. My wife just bought me an iPad and ESPN does the same thing as well. I've considered installing a 3rd party browser because of this.

Re: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Post by RexRollman »

Steko wrote: post #6
jasonkester wrote: post #3

Anybody know how to read techcrunch articles on an iPad these days? I get fifteen seconds of article, then get redirected to that "download our app" thing. No combination of back/forward or clicking "no, let me read the article" results in me being able to actually read the article. I'm not about to pollute my iPad just for one site, so I guess from here on out I just have to make a mental note to stay away from tech…

Apple should threaten action on any media company app whose corresponding website has an egregious iOS device only popup. That or enable desktop user agent reporting via a toggle ala third party browser apps Atomic and Sleipnir.

It's annoying but I don't see Apple addressing it.

Re: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Post by 8ig8 »

jasonkester wrote: post #3

Anybody know how to read techcrunch articles on an iPad these days? I get fifteen seconds of article, then get redirected to that "download our app" thing. No combination of back/forward or clicking "no, let me read the article" results in me being able to actually read the article. I'm not about to pollute my iPad just for one site, so I guess from here on out I just have to make a mental note to stay away from tech…

Try this... http://tcfast.com/2012/08/25/5-design-tricks-facebook-uses-t...

Re: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Post by pygy_ »

RexRollman wrote: post #44

Facebook is simply not trustworthy. I feel sorry for people having to create an account simply to use Spotify.

You don't have to use the same account for everything.

I have one for social interactions with all privacy settings maxed out (including opting out of the Facebook platform [0]), and one for apps, with no friends.

The same goes for Twitter. http://twitter.com/loganloginski

[0] Otherwise the apps of your friends have access to your data.

Re: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Post by denzil_correa »

hcarvalhoalves wrote: post #16
jasonkester wrote: post #3

Anybody know how to read techcrunch articles on an iPad these days? I get fifteen seconds of article, then get redirected to that "download our app" thing. No combination of back/forward or clicking "no, let me read the article" results in me being able to actually read the article. I'm not about to pollute my iPad just for one site, so I guess from here on out I just have to make a mental note to stay away from tech…

Techcrunch wants you to install their app so they can steal your mobile data while you read about how Facebook steals your personal data... Everything is an app today! Yay!

Is that allowed though? Microsoft was penalized heavily for not providing options to Internet Explorer. Can this fall under a lawsuit?

Re: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Post by mccr8 »

gingerlime wrote: post #13

Security confirmations are always tricky, because most of the time users aren't able to fully (or even partially) understand the full implications of the response they give. If I accept this certificate, what does it mean? Is something bad going to happen to my computer? So they can access my name, picture, gender etc... but what are they going to do with it? It's quite obvious to see that this new style of confirmat…

Good point about security confirmations, but it isn't as simple as users versus app publishers. Leading users down the garden path like this helps users who don't care about app privacy, or who already have a default understanding that apps may post on their wall, by letting them get on with playing the game without having to understand a page of stuff they don't care about or already know.

Re: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Post by gergles »

pygy_ wrote: post #46
RexRollman wrote: post #44

Facebook is simply not trustworthy. I feel sorry for people having to create an account simply to use Spotify.

You don't have to use the same account for everything. I have one for social interactions with all privacy settings maxed out (including opting out of the Facebook platform [0]), and one for apps, with no friends. The same goes for Twitter. http://twitter.com/loganloginski [0] Otherwise the apps of your friends have access to your data.

It's against the Facebook ToS to have more than one account.
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