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But if you don't use the platform then this new link format doesn't affect you?
by jefftk 4y ago
But if you don't use the platform then this new link format doesn't affect you?
- wahnfrieden 4y agoso what, jesus christ
- type0 4y agothey still collect a dossier on you, shadow profile.
- jefftk 4y agoI thought we were talking specifically about the privacy implications of the new link format? Which is entirely orthogonal to shadow profiles.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoidk why you're nitpicking the logic of a discussion that you kicked off w "why would you care about something that doesn't directly affect you specifically". it's embarrassing that hn requires a civil response to that instead of dismissing and moving on lol
- rwalle 4y agoDefine "use the platform" Do you know that almost every "share on Facebook" button on a random news article/blog post collects data from you, if you don't have strong privacy protection enabled? That means even if you have never registered a Facebook account, Facebook could gather your page view data and use that to show ads targeting you on another page. Same thing here.
- jefftk 4y agoWe are talking about a new style of Facebook link that has built-in tracking parameters, so that when you click through to a page on Facebook it gets logged in connection with how you got there. If someone never visits Facebook, this new style of link does not affect them. I agree that Facebook also collects data in other ways, but this is entirely unrelated.
- cascada 4y ago"button on a random news article/blog post collects data from you, " " That means even if you have never registered a Facebook account, Facebook could gather your page view data and use that to show ads targeting you on another page." What a gibberish. Tell me, how will it technically do that? On what "another page"? On the same website - yes. So what? Each website can do that.