willoremus

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   by willoremus 8y ago

   Facebook doesn't share your personal info with third parties--at least, not with advertisers. The fact that it allowed you to hand over that information to third-party developers (not advertisers) is the root of the Cambridge Analytica
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   by willoremus 8y ago

   This is a good analogy. Near the bottom of my piece I propose, "If you're not paying for it with money, you're paying for it in some other way." Admittedly that's fairly clunky. In a critique of my piece on Twitter,
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   by willoremus 8y ago

   Yes, I agree with all of this. I guess I was writing my explanation above at the same time you were writing this.
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   by willoremus 8y ago

   You're right, I probably could have done a better job citing sources on these claims. You can read about Larry Page and Sergey Brin's early anti-ads stance in any number of books about Google, or in their own published paper that
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   Body hackers give themselves sixth senses, like infrared vision.(slate.com)

   1 points by willoremus 14y ago|0 comments
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   Is This the Greatest Coder at Google?(slate.com)

   9 points by willoremus 14y ago|0 comments