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Data can be collected by third parties about your activity on platforms like Facebook without involvement of the platform owner. On TikTok or Instagram a bot ca
by cyounkins 5y ago
Data can be collected by third parties about your activity on platforms like Facebook without involvement of the platform owner. On TikTok or Instagram a bot can subscribe to you. On Facebook some info may be public to other users (depends on settings) and some interactions are public, like commenting on a public post.
- ve55 5y agoRight, I think a lot of the HN audience understands this often happens with public (or 'public') data on the Internet. I still think the article title is a bit misleading when the article is about data brokers instead of Facebook (even if sometimes data brokers use FB) and would hope for more constructive and better-sourced articles from Mozilla.
- duud 5y agoIncreasing engagement is only evil when Facebook does it.
- nsonha 5y agoyeah what about the streaming industry and the game industry? Of course when we dig into them we'll come to the conclusion that human attention is havested in order to fund a whole range of industries and it's their entire business model we need to kill to stop this. This has always been the case since before the digital age (hollywood, cable, video game, sports, even news). These industries feed on humans paying attention to things that don't matter in their life.