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It's funny that a newspaper criticizes Facebook's data mining practices ... but when I opened the article on their website, my privacy badger addon told me that
by chriswwweb 10y ago
It's funny that a newspaper criticizes Facebook's data mining practices ... but when I opened the article on their website, my privacy badger addon told me that 16 scripts had been blocked (facebook!, twitter, google analytics, chartbeat, outbrain, pardot, ...). Then I read through the article and half way down they throw me a huge banner in the way telling me to like their page on Facebook :/ So basically they preach something and do something else, they are really a bunch of hypocrites!
- username223 10y agoThis could also be seen as a newspaper operating as it should: one group is paid to report news, another is paid to sell ads, and they don't talk to each other. Things are more complicated in real life, more so now that the news people are under pressure to "generate viral content," but having creepy trackers next to an article about creepy trackers isn't necessarily hypocrisy.