Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business
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Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business
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Re: Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business
#2Corporate warfare in the internet age. Interesting to see how Apple and Google can materially impact FB.
Re: Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business
#3The value of the location based tracking is overrated.
Anyway, if you post an image to Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp, the EXIF data has your location, or it can be solved from the content of the image.
Re: Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business
#4So we basically are seeing that google was "right" from their point of view in securing a mobile OS.
Facebook maybe thought this day would never arrive and could have avoided that by doing their own mobile OS too.
Well, maybe they declared this battle as lost and focused on the next one: VR. Problem is that VR took too long to arrive and death on mobile can kill Facebook?
Re: Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business
#5Whenever I read articles like this, I get more and more horrified.
I mean, I know that adtech spy on us a lot, but I didn't knew for example that using Bluetooth while the app is shut down was possible.
Makes me very wary even of dumbphones, for example I bought a dumbphone recently, and yet it came with Facebook and Google Assistant both pre-installed.
Re: Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business
#6So we basically are seeing that google was "right" from their point of view in securing a mobile OS. Facebook maybe thought this day would never arrive and could have avoided that by doing their own mobile OS too. Well, maybe they declared this battle as lost and focused on the next one: VR. Problem is that VR took too long to arrive and death on mobile can kill Facebook?
Question is does google still collect the location data. And are they acting monopolistic here.
My understanding is that even the latest version of android phones home your location in real-time. Which google uses itself for ads.
Re: Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business
#7Why can't governments make tracking illegal?
These companies that manipulate population into buying products they don't want or need are the mythical "broken window".
Nobody mention how all this online business contributes to global warming. Factories produce useless products, that need to be stored, delivered, disposed of...
Re: Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business
#8So we basically are seeing that google was "right" from their point of view in securing a mobile OS. Facebook maybe thought this day would never arrive and could have avoided that by doing their own mobile OS too. Well, maybe they declared this battle as lost and focused on the next one: VR. Problem is that VR took too long to arrive and death on mobile can kill Facebook?
'...and death on mobile can kill Facebook?'
Seriously wondering what impact this would have on the world other than a positive one?
Re: Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business
#9Corporate warfare in the internet age. Interesting to see how Apple and Google can materially impact FB.
I'm not sure this is effecting Facebook as much as they are making out.
People are still using Facebook, posting pictures, tagging people they know, checking into locations, posting what they buy and so on.
Still pently of information to track and sell to advertisers.
Re: Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business
#10The value of the location based tracking is overrated. Anyway, if you post an image to Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp, the EXIF data has your location, or it can be solved from the content of the image.
What if iOS or Android start to scrub that data for you?
Which I wish they did...