Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it
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Re: Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it
#2Nicely juxtapositioned with the Independent's ad for their Facebook Bitcoin group. Facebook groups really are the antithesis of the Internet, being closed and unindexable.
Anyway perhaps these no-decline 'permission' screens will cause a few people to reconsider their presence on Facebook. After all the company's Chief Privacy Officer endorses it! “People can choose to not be on Facebook if they want"
Re: Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it
#3I just added the "Facebook Container" extension to my Firefox browser. I am hoping it will prevent most of Facebook's tracking, but I do know that it probably won't block all the tracking.
Re: Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it
#4Nicely juxtapositioned with the Independent's ad for their Facebook Bitcoin group. Facebook groups really are the antithesis of the Internet, being closed and unindexable. Anyway perhaps these no-decline 'permission' screens will cause a few people to reconsider their presence on Facebook. After all the company's Chief Privacy Officer endorses it! “People can choose to not be on Facebook if they want"
"Chief Privacy Officer" at a company that wouldn't exist were real privacy to be present in their products.
Re: Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it
#5Nicely juxtapositioned with the Independent's ad for their Facebook Bitcoin group. Facebook groups really are the antithesis of the Internet, being closed and unindexable. Anyway perhaps these no-decline 'permission' screens will cause a few people to reconsider their presence on Facebook. After all the company's Chief Privacy Officer endorses it! “People can choose to not be on Facebook if they want"
perhaps these no-decline 'permission' screens will cause a few people to reconsider their presence on Facebook
Yes, but not more than a few. Privacy is not a big concern for most.
“People can choose to not be on Facebook if they want"
I made my choice a number of years ago.
Re: Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it
#6I just added the "Facebook Container" extension to my Firefox browser. I am hoping it will prevent most of Facebook's tracking, but I do know that it probably won't block all the tracking.
Won't ublock [1] solve that by blocking that kind of scripts from loading?
Re: Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it
#7Considering that Facebook makes its revenue from ads and that providing relevant ads needs data and tracking, this move is not so bad.
Users that don’t accept the terms or use various tech to block this, would receive misappropriated ads. Bad ads make companies lose revenue while annoying the users with extremely irrelevant info.
This method should be extremely effective in removing false positives.
Personal observation: ads are never going to go away and I personally prefer receiving ads about some local beer brand and not about lipstick or sake in Japan.
Re: Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it
#8This does not discuss whether nonusers will be asked to opt-in. Curious how GDPR will change tracking people w/out FB accounts.
Re: Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it
#9I just added the "Facebook Container" extension to my Firefox browser. I am hoping it will prevent most of Facebook's tracking, but I do know that it probably won't block all the tracking.
yup likewise.
I noticed their 'opt out for interest based ads' was through a cookie set by some consortium of creeps companies. at the time I remember thinking its like 'if I dont want you to track and follow me all over the internet then I need to allow you to track me and follow me all over the place so you know who I am.. Riiight'. plus that setting resets if you delete the cookie. so I dont know how will that work with the container. perhaps somebody who knows more can enlighten me.
honestly given that FB is after my healthcare data, my patience has worn quite thin with them. IMHO the creep factor and unintended consequences are way to many.
Re: Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it
#10I just added the "Facebook Container" extension to my Firefox browser. I am hoping it will prevent most of Facebook's tracking, but I do know that it probably won't block all the tracking.
Won't ublock [1] solve that by blocking that kind of scripts from loading? [1] https://www.ublock.org/
There are other ways that facebook can track you, ublock does counter a lot of it but there is a constant stream of innovations and work arounds by tracking companies to keep a hold on you. I think the financial motivation for them to keep tracking you outweighs the effort ublock can put into stopping that. The firefox container is a legitimately novel approach to stopping the problem though I'm certain it will be attacked as well... I think starting from a stance of distrust gives them a lot more power to combat tracking efforts.