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After being frustrated for a long time by such issues, I think people are reluctant to immediately forgive and forget. After all, these issues are part of a lar
by fjarlq 15y ago
After being frustrated for a long time by such issues, I think people are reluctant to immediately forgive and forget. After all, these issues are part of a larger pattern:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook
The Instant Personalization issue was the straw that finally broke the back for me. Without my permission, my Facebook info was suddenly being used to personalize non-Facebook websites[1], and in order to fully opt-out of that you had to visit each application and block it[2].
[1] http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Facebook-Privacy-Concerns-Resurface-in-Senators-Complaint-283526/ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Facebook-Privacy-Concerns-...
[2] http://librarianbyday.net/2010/04/22/protect-your-privacy-opt-out-of-facebooks-new-instant-personalization-yes-you-have-to-opt-out/ http://librarianbyday.net/2010/04/22/protect-your-privacy-op...
I don't know what Facebook did (if anything) to address these issues, and frankly, I don't care. I was tired of having to keep track of the parade of new privacy concerns about Facebook. It seemed every few weeks they added a new feature that required me to once again adjust my settings to opt-out of it. Once they even reset some of the security settings I had previously made, making them more permissive.
So, it is not surprising to me at all how these things "keep coming up".