If you believe Facebook will stop abusing your privacy if you pay them, I have a bridge to sell you…
Why is that a phrase? People do occasionally sell bridges.
Thanks
Is it a private bridge?
Is it a nice bridge?
Privacy? What is this article talking about. Ads not displaying in no way implies privacy. They will harvest your data as much as it possibly can either way. All you are doing by paying to remove ads is directly funding the ad business model.
Exactly this!
The article confuses privacy and ads-free. As in, you pay $10 a month not to see what the data they collect on you would be used for if you didn’t pay. But they still collect data on you and monetize it in many other ways.
And if you think this is the final price, I’d like to buy a bridge from you…
This bridge is all over the place
What annoys me most about that kind of logic is that the reverse could also be true - they could potentially run ads like on TV without directly profiling users or violating privacy. But by marrying the concept of ads and tracking, they can play the “but we need to pay for our services somehow” card.
And its not like their similar concepts at all. This journalist needs to actually read Facebook’s terms of service.
Here’s a tip that costs less than $10/month - if you want privacy, just don’t go on Facebook!
T’ain’t enough. Gotta block everything they do, everywhere on the internet.
As someone so eloquently put it: you might not have a facebook profile, but facebook has a you profile.
If you’ve ever seen a “share on facebook” button on another website, they’ve been watching you.
Aka a shadow profile.
This has to be illegal. And if it’s not, it should be. There was a good excuse for a while: the internet is too new for regulations to be in place yet. Well we are well past that, but too many people are making money off of them still not being in place. Fuck.
I know for a fact that I have at least 3 different shadow profiles about me being bought and sold on the Internet. They all have different inaccurate information about me. Because I don’t have a direct relationship with the brokers, any attempt by me to correct or remove one of the profiles would just result in yet another profile.
We need global legislation to make it illegal to hold PII on an individual without notifying them of the fact annually. Failure to do so would have GDPR level consequences.
You’ll have to outbid cuckerberg for enough corrupt politicians to do that, and he has a 15 year head start
While Europe may seem to care about privacy, good luck in the states. If you think US regulators care, well, bridges are a hot commodity in this thread and I’ve got em
There’s no fucking way. They’ll take your $10 and still sell all your shit.
“privacy”
Uninstalling that garbage is free
And of course the “expert” quoted in favor of giving everything to Facebook is a Washington DC lobbyist.
Well, getting an extra 10$ each month sounds nice but it’s really not remotely enough to make me use Facebook.
They just need a really unique way to ask you for a 10$ donation
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