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Facebook tracking is illegal in Europe
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#52Why is there a random picture of a dude in the article
That's Max Schrems, founder of noyb, the NGO that filed the complaints. An image caption would have been useful.
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#53I don’t understand why Meta is always in the center on this problem, at least on most media. It is not relevant anymore. TikTok, or even Google should be the most concern now no?
Facebook has 2.96 billion MAUs.
Not relevant?
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#54I don’t understand why Meta is always in the center on this problem, at least on most media. It is not relevant anymore. TikTok, or even Google should be the most concern now no?
This is a super uninformed take.
"During the third quarter of 2022, the number of daily active users on Facebook reached 1.98 billion" (https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-d...)
A site with 2 billion daily active users is relevant.
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#55Why is there a random picture of a dude in the article
That seems to be Max Schrems, the guy who successfully sued Facebook in the past [1], but it's odd the image has no caption.
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#56Is anyone outside of Meta really disturbed by this?
I am disturbed, because it took so long to come to this realization.
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#57Why is there a random picture of a dude in the article
That picture is of "Max Schrems, the lawyer who successfully sued Facebook for privacy violations against European citizens" which is another article at that site. They probably just forgot to link it and give it an appropriate caption.
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#58Well, active consent has been seen before with cookie banners. Let's see how long it takes before every time you open Instagram you get a prompt like: "I allow not not omitting the usage of tracking"
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#59Cool. So, how does this impact consumers that never used Facebook, but that have shadow profiles for social network inference and ad tracking?
Presumably, since Facebook has no way to contact those people, they will just shut down the no-logged-in-but-tracked half of their business in Europe?
(If you don't know what I mean by shadow profile: When you first create a Facebook account, it helpfully produces a prepopulated list of your friends, and links in a pile of consumer tracking data before the onboarding flow is done.)
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#60Pure nostalgia seeing that Instagram app icon. Alas, as always with such news: "The EU decision will not have direct consequences for users, unfortunately, as it can be appealed to. Such an appeal would lead to a lengthy judicial process."
> Pure nostalgia seeing that Instagram app icon I really miss the skeumophic design of the iOS ecosystem from the early-to-mid 2010's. It felt so premium, especially with the retina display which was miles ahead of basically everything else (especially desktops and laptops of the era).
I had to check the retina remark as my Sony Z5 premium came in mind with the 800+ppi but even before that in 2013 I had z Sony Z1 with 440ppi and I'm pretty sure other manufacturers had high dpi screens since 2010 eg. sharp's ISO3 . So "miles ahead" is not true plus I believe iphones had other manufacturing tricks that helped in the "retina" marketing hype, I believe touch/display elements been closer together etc. Not saying is was a fluke, but a hype it was for sure