FaceBook tracks everybody ?

BillWoodruff

Wall Street Journal, May 27, "Facebook Wants to Help Sell Every Ad on the Web" [^]: "

Quote:

To date, Facebook has only showed ads across its Audience Network to Facebook users, targeted based on information the company has collected about its users’ tastes and behaviors. Now Facebook plans to collect information about all Internet users, through “like” buttons and other pieces of code present on Web pages across the Internet. It will then use the information it collects to target ads to non-Facebook users.

"Surely ... not moi !

«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

Lost User

Moi, certainement pas... J'espère.... I hope ... hoffe ich ... espero X|

Mike Hankey

Yeah but who will over seeing the over see'r? That proverbial eye in the sky?

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DaveX86

Time to develop 'Likes blocker' :)

RossMW

Time to not bother to sign up. Check.. Done. :)

Basildane

Good luck with that, Faceplant. I block 100% of all Internet ads. Also, 100% of all radio, TV, telemarketer ads. Any spam I get in the mail I use to start my wood-stove. I pity the people who use that "service" and willingly give their private information to them.

Nelek

BillWoodruff wrote:

"Surely ... not moi !

If it comes to click the "like" buttons... surely neither moi. The problem is, that I don't think it is even needed to click them :sigh:

M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Nelek

RossMW wrote:

Time to not bother to sign up.

As it was going to do such a big difference :sigh:

M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Forogar

I just don't "like" anything! Simples!

- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

ed welch

adblocker already does that

DaveX86

Damn, they stole my idea :)

Sander Rossel

BillWoodruff wrote:

It will then use the information it collects to target ads to non-Facebook users.

"Surely ... not moi !

I just shared your message on Facebook. They know you now. They're not happy. You best sleep with one eye open :) Seriously though, I signed up for Facebook about a year ago. I never wanted it because I believed you can't "sign up for friendship" and "I really don't need to know what you harvested in Farmville." I won't say it's the best thing I ever did, because it isn't (signing up on here did my a lot more good!), but it isn't as bad as I thought it would be. People actually share fun stuff (besides the kittens and cats, which alone make it worth it) like new music and movie releases, political views, and funny comics. And I get invited to parties once in a while :) Surely people also share a lot of rubbish (mostly pregnancies, babies, and "I'm a Disney princess! Which princess are you?"), but I just read past that and filter out the good stuff :) As for privacy, "they" know all about me already. Google does, my government does, the American government probably does as well, some other websites, including CodeProject, does. Facebook might as well do too (if they didn't already).

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Regards, Sander

Dan Neely

That's OK; if you weren't blocking it, their like/share button widgets that've been blighting the web since creation already were tracking you. (And so do most of the equivalents for rival platforms.) X|

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt