Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes
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Re: Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes
#2"Privacy is a relic of a time gone by" -Sean Parker
Re: Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes
#3What about the "ad-likes", where FB shows "Your friend Jill likes ponies. Here's an ad for My Little Ponies" -- are these similarly prevented?
Breaking things tends to make unhappy the people using.
Re: Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes
#4What about the "ad-likes", where FB shows "Your friend Jill likes ponies. Here's an ad for My Little Ponies" -- are these similarly prevented? Breaking things tends to make unhappy the people using.
Don't worry, Zuckerberg will write a heartfelt boilerplate apology soon enough. :P
Re: Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes
#5So if I send a PM to a friend on FB with a link and note that says, this is the lamest site ever the "Like" counter on the site goes up by one? That makes perfect sense.
Re: Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes
#6So if I send a PM to a friend on FB with a link and note that says, this is the lamest site ever the "Like" counter on the site goes up by one? That makes perfect sense.
Actually it goes up by two, but Facebook claims that's the bug, not the fact that it goes up at all.
Re: Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes
#7"Privacy is a relic of a time gone by" -Sean Parker
"Fuck you" -Me, responding to Sean Parker on privacy.
Re: Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes
#8the hubbub over "scanning" here is silly. Obviously Facebook's systems scan your everything.
The issue is that FB considers a "private mention" as a "Like", but it's old news that a "Facebook Like" is not an "English like"
Re: Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes
#9There's a reason I disable Facebook buttons on my browser and don't stick them on my own sites (including my blog). I don't trust Facebook with my browsing data, and I don't want to subject users of any website I work on to their abuse, either.
"Move fast and break expectation of privacy"