Re:Facebook Will Cut Off Access to Third Party Data for Ad T...
by Slansitartop on Thursday March 29, 2018 @04:36PM
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> Zuckerberg has been talking a big game lately about regaining user's trust and how "we have a lot of work to do." If he were at all serious about those sentiments FB would begin...
> FB's desire to continue operating in total secrecy and simultaneously court public trust seems to be the very height of cognitive dissonance.
Is it cognitive dissonance if they're self-consciously lying?
My take is nothing's fundamentally changed for them, and "the work they have to do" is distracting people until the spotlight's off, making only marginal changes in the process.
Take this change, for instance, it may have nothing to do with user privacy and everything to do with pushing advertisers to FB's own targeting platform more heavily.
> FB's desire to continue operating in total secrecy and simultaneously court public trust seems to be the very height of cognitive dissonance.
Is it cognitive dissonance if they're self-consciously lying?
My take is nothing's fundamentally changed for them, and "the work they have to do" is distracting people until the spotlight's off, making only marginal changes in the process.
Take this change, for instance, it may have nothing to do with user privacy and everything to do with pushing advertisers to FB's own targeting platform more heavily.