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Pay or have your information harvested and sold. Its extortion.
by blitzar 2y ago
Pay or have your information harvested and sold. Its extortion.
- jdminhbg 2y agoYou’re missing a third option there, which makes it not extortion.
- blitzar 2y agoIf the third way is "don't use the product" facebook have that covered too... they will harvest and sell your personal information.
- StewardMcOy 2y agoI may be misreading it, but I believe the third option the EU is expects from Meta is non-targeted advertising.
- jobs_throwaway 2y agoYou must be either broke and/or paranoid. If it matters to you, pay up. If it doesn't, you get to use a service for free.
- Aloisius 2y agoWho does Facebook sell data to?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y ago"Harvested and processed to add cohort tags to include in advertisement real-time bidding contests so advertisers can know how much to bid", while more precise, isn't as punchy as "harvested and sold".
- Aloisius 2y agoSo it's not literally sold? I've been confused about this for a while. Given data is what allows them a unique advantage for their advertising product, it seemed odd that Facebook would sell that data to others. But to hear people talk, a company could literally buy personal information from Facebook.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y agoYeah, that makes sense. Facebook wants the data so they can provide more accurate advertising "cohorts". The accuracy is the value that other people see, hence "selling" the data even though they're really selling an ad view.
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- milesrout 2y agoSo not sold. Also not your data. It is Facebook's data. It belongs to Facebook. You don't own it just because it happens to be about you. Does someone own the Wikipedia page about them?! No, Wikipedia does.
- overstay8930 2y agoNobody was holding a gun up to my head forcing me to open Facebook or give them money
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