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for me its the difference in how they sell your personal information. 1. google is more like a sandbox, businesses just tell them who they want to advertise t

for me its the difference in how they sell your personal information. 1. google is more like a sandbox, businesses just tell them who they want to advertise too, and they'll act as a proxy. 2. Facebook openly sells/hands over your information without any type of control (look at beacon or their special deals with certain api users) 3. Apple does it in a more devious way IMO, in that with IOS they know applications are taking personal information, contacts and locations and never notifies the end user this is happening. In IOS 6 they are making the changes to allow you to control this but this is only after they are losing some market share.

muzak 14y ago
Yes, Beacon was a shit show. However, anything recent? Also, tell me more about #2... You and I can both create an ad and see all the data that is shared, which really is none because it is all general targeting. APIs are publicly documented and I'm sure the Europeans (and FTC) would crack down on them if they had any special deals. If anything, Google allows re-targeting, which shares a lot more data than Facebook seems to. Also, I didn't know about #3.
- angryasian 14y ago
  #2 - http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/11/yelp-security-hole-puts-facebook-user-data-at-risk-underscores-problems-with-instant-personalization/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/11/yelp-security-hole-puts-fac... Facebook actively hands over your data to partners Google does retargeting the right way. I don't how you make the assumption google shares more, cause google is very open with their ad retargeting. It never shares any personal identifiers just general aggregate data. #3 .. People won't admit it but its a fact.