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- "Facebook doesn't really give your information to the advertisers" How do you know? I think this is an appropriate time to mention what Zuckerberg once said

by cph1 15y ago

- "Facebook doesn't really give your information to the advertisers" How do you know? I think this is an appropriate time to mention what Zuckerberg once said about Facebook users: "They trust me - dumb fucks." - "Apple will always care" Apple uses conflict minerals and has its devices made on slave-like factories. You really think they care about anything other than creating value for its stockholders? I use Apple products myself, but I'm certainly not naive about how big business works.

tobylane 15y ago
If you research their ad system, there's a lot of easily findable stuff about how your friends names get involved, and how you're matched to the ads, not the other way around.
- cph1 15y ago
  I know their ad system - I've used it myself. My point is that they may do other kinds of things without you knowing.
  - tobylane 15y ago
    That's getting close to paranoia. EU law is enough to keep you safe, and Facebook follows such law, here's what they have to say https://www.facebook.com/policy.php https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
    - cph1 15y ago
      > That's getting close to paranoia. Selling users' personal data to data mining and advertising companies is very common. It's not really paranoid to think that Facebook would do such a thing, considering that they call their users trusting dumb fucks and blatantly disregard their users' request for decent privacy. > EU law is enough to keep you safe Most of the times when an American Internet company have been challenged by EU law, the response from the company has been, "We're an American company, and our users uploaded their data to our servers which are placed in America." Then there's not much EU can do.
huxley 15y ago
Apple started earlier this year to map its entire supply chain in an effort to eliminate use of "conflict minerals". http://www.enoughproject.org/blogs/apple-making-headway-mapping-conflict-minerals http://www.enoughproject.org/blogs/apple-making-headway-mapp...
huxley 15y ago
Apple started earlier this year to map its entire supply chain in an effort to eliminate use of "conflict minerals". http://www.enoughproject.org/blogs/apple-making-headway-mapping-conflict-minerals http://www.enoughproject.org/blogs/apple-making-headway-mapp...
huxley 15y ago
Apple started earlier this year to map its entire supply chain in an effort to eliminate use of "conflict minerals". http://www.enoughproject.org/blogs/apple-making-headway-mapping-conflict-minerals http://www.enoughproject.org/blogs/apple-making-headway-mapp...

by cph1 15y ago

tobylane 15y ago

If you research their ad system, there's a lot of easily findable stuff about how your friends names get involved, and how you're matched to the ads, not the other way around.

cph1 15y ago
I know their ad system - I've used it myself. My point is that they may do other kinds of things without you knowing.
- tobylane 15y ago
  That's getting close to paranoia. EU law is enough to keep you safe, and Facebook follows such law, here's what they have to say https://www.facebook.com/policy.php https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
  - cph1 15y ago
    > That's getting close to paranoia. Selling users' personal data to data mining and advertising companies is very common. It's not really paranoid to think that Facebook would do such a thing, considering that they call their users trusting dumb fucks and blatantly disregard their users' request for decent privacy. > EU law is enough to keep you safe Most of the times when an American Internet company have been challenged by EU law, the response from the company has been, "We're an American company, and our users uploaded their data to our servers which are placed in America." Then there's not much EU can do.

huxley 15y ago

Apple started earlier this year to map its entire supply chain in an effort to eliminate use of "conflict minerals". http://www.enoughproject.org/blogs/apple-making-headway-mapping-conflict-minerals http://www.enoughproject.org/blogs/apple-making-headway-mapp...

huxley 15y ago