Re:Open Letter to Mozilla: Bring Back Persona
by deno on Thursday December 24, 2015 @03:23PM
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Facebook’s “Anonymous Login” doesn’t protect you in any way from Facebook, it’s for hiding information Facebook owns about your life from other websites. So it doesn’t help with this:
>The basic, accurate information you receive from the FB SDK really helps salespeople identify qualified leads for trial-to-paid conversions; the info also can be used to tell you what other websites people visit or software they use. This really helps make sales and improve your software in a way that seems generally net positive for consumers and producers.
but does nothing at all to protect your privacy.
> And yet it's hardly adopted anywhere.
That’s because it’s Public Relations. Just like their TOR gateway. Just like Zuckerberg’s LLC “charity.” Just like everything else they do[1].
“Steps in the right direction” is the signature move of modern corporate PR.
>The basic, accurate information you receive from the FB SDK really helps salespeople identify qualified leads for trial-to-paid conversions; the info also can be used to tell you what other websites people visit or software they use. This really helps make sales and improve your software in a way that seems generally net positive for consumers and producers.
but does nothing at all to protect your privacy.
> And yet it's hardly adopted anywhere.
That’s because it’s Public Relations. Just like their TOR gateway. Just like Zuckerberg’s LLC “charity.” Just like everything else they do[1].
“Steps in the right direction” is the signature move of modern corporate PR.
[1] http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/258060-advocate-accu...