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500 Million Europeans are not stupid, and they know what is going on: they see the ads right in front of them and are aware there is some degree of targeting go
by jariel 6y ago
500 Million Europeans are not stupid, and they know what is going on: they see the ads right in front of them and are aware there is some degree of targeting going on.
The mechanism of this targeting is not some complicated dark secret - it's literally available to 7 billion people to see any time. It's right there: location, demographic and basic interest targeting. Data is not being sold to anyone, and advertisers can place ads based on a few simple things. There's nothing remotely nefarious.
People around the world 100% make the choice to use Facebook with this understanding, it's literally free, and there is no compulsion to use it.
If you use Facebook, then you have made the choice, nobody is putting words in your mouth, your assertion is a function of your actions, not my words.
If Facebook was leaking data, selling data etc. there would be a problem. But they aren't, so there isn't.
- piva00 6y agoI'm saying that you are wrong given that I worked with data privacy advocacy groups in 3 countries in Europe where one of the researches was exactly to gauge how much the average internet user knows about how their data is collected, used and cross-referenced between multiple parties. You are building the strawman that because people know about data collection they aren't stupid, I never said they are stupid, I'm saying that the way this data is collected and used is so obfuscated from the general public that it's akin to exploiting a whole populace ignorance as a business model. > People around the world 100% make the choice to use Facebook with this understanding, it's literally free, and there is no compulsion to use it. This is patently false, not sure if you like hyperboles or if you are just that ignorant about the knowledge of the rest of the people in the world that doesn't live on Hacker News and breath tech...