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Re: Facebook Pay

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Post by AlexandrB »

rootusrootus wrote: post #27
AlexandrB wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the "Security and Protection" sub page[1]. > What you buy is your business. Your transactions are confidential—and aren't shared to your Newsfeed—unless you choose to share them. So yeah. Confidentiality is defined as "not shared on your Newsfeed". Safe to assume Facebook is going to milk this data for all it's worth. There are also some other whoppers: > If there is an unauthorized Facebook Pay transaction on y…

> Safe to assume Facebook is going to milk this data for all it's worth. I'm no Facebook fan, but let's be honest. Your bank, credit card company, and merchants are all doing exactly the same thing. Perhaps the bank is regulated tightly enough that it isn't quite as bad, but the others definitely are.

You're not wrong. What's troubling is combining that with information gleaned from from the "social graph" as well as well as all the surveillance Facebook does via its web trackers. I'd rather this stuff be stored in different silos by different competitors than centralized in one place.

Although IIRC Facebook already buys some of this info from data brokers so...

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Post by LegitShady »

On firefox, clicking this link loads the page and somehow disables the back button to get back to HN. It does not load in a new tab. Anyone else have this experience?

Re: Facebook Pay

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Post by cyral »

spoonjim wrote: post #69

I think this will be successful on Instagram because there is a TON of e-commerce happing on Instagram with awkward mechanics like linking to an Etsy or Shopify store in the image caption. If a vendor like this: https://www.instagram.com/summergirldesigns could just allow "Add to Cart" for each of her items, it would probably result in more sales.

This has actually been a thing on Instagram for a while now. There is an entire shopping tab on the app. Not sure how that differs from Facebook Pay though.

Re: Facebook Pay

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Post by yalogin »

So this is not a payment/purchase option on Facebook but they want to be Apple Pay? I mean do they want me to support it in my app for example?

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Post by EGreg »

jjulius wrote: post #36
EGreg wrote: post #29

Why can’t crypto be like that? Centralized Social networks like Faceboon and WhatsApp can roll out a payment system nearly overnight and have it accepted at millions of merchants. Crypto after 10 years is hardly accepted anywhere…

Facebook Pay is just a payment system that was established within the confines and regulations of an existing monetary system. "Crypto" is not that.

"just"?

When people start keeping their balances INSIDE the system, it becomes its own currency. Like when people pay with PayPal without cashing out.

They can print more of it internally, and you wouldn't know. They can have fractional reserves, etc.

WhatsApp and Facebook have huge adoption. By contrast, after 10 years, crypto is nowhere near being a "peer to peer cash system".

Re: Facebook Pay

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Post by pimlottc »

Off topic, but I really hate this trend of using animate-in transitions for _every_ _single_ _section_ of the page. Why I do always have to scroll into a half a window's worth of blank background before the content appears with some cutesy slide-in animation? I could perhaps forgive it if it was just badly implemented lazy-loading images but it also does this for simple section titles and body text as well. It ends up taking twice the time to read since you have to keep waiting for text to appear. It also looks quite bizarre if you refresh the page while scrolled to the bottom and then scroll back up.

To be clear, this is not a complaint about tying dynamic effects to scroll position. Apple does those all the time [0][1][2] but at least you will never have a big gap of blank content at the bottom of the page, usually there is fresh content continously immediately visible as you are scrolling. I don't even mind if there is a bit of initial page-loading animation at the start, as long as it's just once.

Does anyone really prefer reading pages like this? It just seems very disrespectful of the user's time, forcing them to continuously wait just to read your promotional copy.

0: https://www.apple.com/iphone-13-pro/

1: https://www.apple.com/watch/

2: https://www.apple.com/airpods-max/

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