Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your Phone's Mic

Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by marnett on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @04:44PM (#16540209)

App loyalty cards, while still having some information on you, are largely about large merchants (ie starbucks) avoiding credit card interchange fees by giving rewards for people who load money to the app and purchase from there.

So, all incentives are not against consumers. The merchants avoid the credit card oligopoly fee and pass on the rewards to consumers.

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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by EADGBE on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @05:28PM (#16540558)

Avoiding a credit card processing fee could be done the same with with a punch card.

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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by marnett on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @05:38PM (#16540640)

By having a punch card and forcing customers to use cash? While cash is making a come back in many places, there are still plenty of potential customers who would not buy if cash was required.

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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by EADGBE on Friday March 09, 2018 @09:59AM (#16552136)

I wasn't aware a punch card was "cash-only".

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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by marnett on Friday March 09, 2018 @01:08PM (#16553579)

At this point I think I am unaware what a punch card is. I was assuming a card that gets punched each time you visit a place, and after N punches you get an item for free. Is that right or totally off?

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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by EADGBE on Friday March 09, 2018 @02:31PM (#16554255)

Lol! Yes. I think we're both confused. Let's just leave it.

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