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I assume they've been tracking through Like buttons (clicked or not) for a few years, and now they've collected enough data to know how best to monetize it.
by a3n 10y ago
I assume they've been tracking through Like buttons (clicked or not) for a few years, and now they've collected enough data to know how best to monetize it.
- mtgx 10y agoIndeed, even though they've claimed for years that the Like button tracking was "just a bug" (twice). In the Belgium lawsuit they're claiming it's for security. Facebook is hilarious (-ly evil). We're going to need strong tracking protection in browsers by default, and very soon. If Mozilla won't do it (you can enable it in History settings, though), probably Brave, or some upstart browsers will. Same goes for uBlock and other extensions.
- Jyaif 10y agoYou are assuming they broke the european legislation for "a few years"? It's more likely they had lower hanging fruits to work on before starting this kind of tracking.
- vonklaus 10y ago> You are assuming they broke the european legislation for "a few years"? Not parent. I am not particularly famiiar with that legislation, but if it says that allowing websites to use your API and embed links to your site and profiting from the data in some way is illegal. I am saying that.