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I don't have to worry about Facebook selling my browser history. Well, no, you don't when you have an account either. Facebook might save your browsing history

by Xuzz 15y ago

I don't have to worry about Facebook selling my browser history. Well, no, you don't when you have an account either. Facebook might save your browsing history of pages with Facebook widgets, but they aren't going to sell this. (They probably will use it for more targeted advertising, but isn't this exactly what AdWords is? This kind of profiling and advertising, to me, at least, is what enables the internet.) Facebook isn't going to sell your personal info to advertisers. Just accept it, move on, and complain about other issues that actually do exist.

reverend 15y ago
Naive. Remember that Facebook is a for-profit company and they will do whatever it takes to keep the money coming in, not giving a shit about what you want and your privacy. Same goes for any other company such as Google, Apple, Microsoft or whatever. It's not evil, just how it works.
r00fus 15y ago
> Facebook isn't going to sell your personal info to advertisers. No, they just have gaping personal data exposures [1] and loopholes [2] where the savvy data-miner could easily piece together a dossier on pretty much any FB user. Left as an exercise for the reader: Is this intentional (ct: CIA) or merely incompetence? [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/10/facebook_user_credentials_leaked/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/10/facebook_user_creden... [2] http://news.discovery.com/tech/facebook-flaw-private-photos-111206.html http://news.discovery.com/tech/facebook-flaw-private-photos-...
gldalmaso 15y ago
>> but they aren't going to sell this Maybe they won't per se, but they are still the holders of all that data, and that data is worth a lot to a lot of people, not all of them have ill intent, but some have, or might come along anytime in the future. Then suddenly you are exposed to the wrong people just because you wanted share your social life with your friends (not the world). >> This kind of profiling and advertising, to me, at least, is what enables the internet. The internet is not for-profit. Maybe what you meant wast that it is what enables companies to offer free web services for the end users and still be for-profit. Though they seldom really disclose the privacy cost to the end user.

by Xuzz 15y ago

reverend 15y ago

Naive. Remember that Facebook is a for-profit company and they will do whatever it takes to keep the money coming in, not giving a shit about what you want and your privacy. Same goes for any other company such as Google, Apple, Microsoft or whatever. It's not evil, just how it works.

r00fus 15y ago

> Facebook isn't going to sell your personal info to advertisers. No, they just have gaping personal data exposures [1] and loopholes [2] where the savvy data-miner could easily piece together a dossier on pretty much any FB user. Left as an exercise for the reader: Is this intentional (ct: CIA) or merely incompetence? [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/10/facebook_user_credentials_leaked/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/10/facebook_user_creden... [2] http://news.discovery.com/tech/facebook-flaw-private-photos-111206.html http://news.discovery.com/tech/facebook-flaw-private-photos-...

gldalmaso 15y ago

>> but they aren't going to sell this Maybe they won't per se, but they are still the holders of all that data, and that data is worth a lot to a lot of people, not all of them have ill intent, but some have, or might come along anytime in the future. Then suddenly you are exposed to the wrong people just because you wanted share your social life with your friends (not the world). >> This kind of profiling and advertising, to me, at least, is what enables the internet. The internet is not for-profit. Maybe what you meant wast that it is what enables companies to offer free web services for the end users and still be for-profit. Though they seldom really disclose the privacy cost to the end user.