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The title should be that Facebook apologizes to its _customers_, not its _users_. Its customers are people buying ads, not the users using the social network. A
by kevsim 6y ago
The title should be that Facebook apologizes to its _customers_, not its _users_. Its customers are people buying ads, not the users using the social network. As the saying goes, if you're not paying, you're the product.
- cataphract 6y agoTo be fair, the original title is "Facebook apologizes to users, businesses for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect its customers' privacy"
- jp555 6y agoSo the I'm a "product" of Wikipedia? WordPress? Blender? Linux? mySQL?
- kevsim 6y agoI guess the saying could have appended "when dealing with for-profit businesses" but that loses a bit of catchiness and brevity.
- jp555 6y agoOr maybe it's just a cynical oversimplification? Am I a product of the Oracle DBs behind the websites I use for free? How about credit cards? Isn't the merchant and issuing bank the customer there? As long as I pay off my monthly balance, it's free for me. My Facebook data is worthless. ONLY in aggregate is FB data valuable, and only if it is kept mostly secret from their customers (advertisers). The more FB data you're using, the less you know about me.