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Got a mouse in your pocket? What’s this “we” business? The “we” I was around was and is vehemently opposed to American companies doing this sort of thing.
by kstrauser 9mo ago
Got a mouse in your pocket? What’s this “we” business?
The “we” I was around was and is vehemently opposed to American companies doing this sort of thing.
- wolvoleo 9mo agoMe too. I'm a privacy warrior like yourself. But they do have a point. The Facebook pixel is decades old. This seems to be getting more traction than that did.
- kstrauser 9mo agoI think the FB pixel caused significant industry change, though. For instance, ad blockers became, well, not ubiquitous but incredibly common. Safari started doing great stuff with limiting third party cookies. Email apps started letting you opt out of loading images. A cottage industry of things like Pi-Hole popped up deter tracking at the LAN level. As a whole, tech added a gazillion ways to make Facebook’s tracking less effective.