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Facebook was tracking users even if they didn't click the Like button. This has nothing to do with page view tracking. And they were tracking even non-Facebook
by mtgx 9y ago
Facebook was tracking users even if they didn't click the Like button. This has nothing to do with page view tracking.
And they were tracking even non-Facebook users this way. There's zero consent here no matter how you cut it.
Worse yet, Facebook did this for years, and in the first years it swore it doesn't do that, and when they were caught doing it they said it was "just a bug"...twice.
Facebook has 0% credibility at this point. Just look how they're ruining people's trust in 2FA security, too, now (although if they end-up ruining the trust in SMS 2FA, that wouldn't be too bad of an outcome actually...).
This is a good article (although not complete, and only until 2014) on Facebook's awful, no-good, history of lying and tracking users without their consent:
https://www.propublica.org/article/its-complicated-facebooks-history-of-tracking-you https://www.propublica.org/article/its-complicated-facebooks...
- netgusto 9y ago2FA notif scam was the last straw for me. Just deleted my account. So long and thanks for all the fish!
- wtfstatists 9y agoThere's zero consent here no matter how you cut it. Thats not true. You implicity consent to usage policy of that website which then gave permission to FB. Ofcourse GDPR makes it illegel but until May 25 its not.
- monocasa 9y agoIs it possible to even view the usage policy on one of these sites without hitting a page that loads one of these like buttons first?