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Beacon was a clusterf*ck, no discussion. Even the commercial partners were surprised by the lack of consent from the affected users. However this was a feature
by hanspeter 8y ago
Beacon was a clusterf*ck, no discussion. Even the commercial partners were surprised by the lack of consent from the affected users.
However this was a feature that they launched 12 years ago. Since then Facebook have added more and more granular privacy controls and they have made their API and Ads product increasingly more data restricted in the past 5-6 years.
I don't believe there has ever been a case, where they have reset a privacy setting that was specifically set by the user.
- labster 8y agoSo if a user changes all the settings to say "only ever share with my friends", and then Facebook creates a new service and sets it to "share with all companies", that's not a change of a privacy setting because the setting didn't exist before? Seriously? It's a pattern of behavior on the part of Facebook to not act in the public interest until faced with overwhelming legal or public opinion issues. At least Google is smart enough to see which way the wind is blowing. But sure, continue to support a company that was complicit in the Rohingya genocide though willful ignorance to problems in general. I'm not a Stallmanite but there has to be a point where enough is enough. This is not to take away from the good engineers who worked on React or HHVM. Just consider working for a less morally bankrupt company, please.