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Who cares? No one is making you use Facebook. It is totally okay to walk away and say "nah, I don't want to be tracked." You can consume alcohol and various dr
by xvector 3y ago
Who cares? No one is making you use Facebook. It is totally okay to walk away and say "nah, I don't want to be tracked."
You can consume alcohol and various drugs in the EU but can't say yes to consenting to tracking. Absolutely absurd.
- fsflover 3y ago> No one is making you use Facebook Did you ever hear about the network effect? An example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38954091 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38954091 > but can't say yes to consenting to tracking You can. But how do you not consent?
- denton-scratch 3y agoAre you saying that it's OK for Facebook to break the law and violate users' privacy, because users have the option of not using Facebook? Like, it's OK to mug people in Brixton, because if you don't want to be mugged you can just avoid Brixton? Anyway, Facebook tracks people who've never visited the Facebook website, via their fkin Like button. So yes: people are making me use Facebook.
- Yujf 3y agoThere are things you can't put in food even though you can choose not to eat it. Individual action does not work for some issues. This is one of them. Tracking is everywhere. It is not just facebook. It is every website and there is no realistic alternative as an individual user except be excluded from majority of the internet.
- gampleman 3y agoThere are plenty of jobs where not using Facebook is not an option. "You could just get a different livelihood" is generally above the threshold of when the legal system considers it "forcing" someone. Don't like working 14 hour days? Just get a different job... is not how worker rights work (at least in Europe).