To opt out of Facebook’s tracking, I’m going to have to join Facebook

Re:To opt out of Facebook’s tracking, I’m going to have to j... by elorant on Sunday April 15, 2018 @10:04AM (#16842655)

Fight back. Start blacklisting companies that use such tactics and then boycott the shit out of them. You don't have to go after each and everyone, just the big ones to make a statement.

The thing is though that most people don't care. Or to be more precise, they don't know enough to care. Apart from the HN community I haven't seen anyone else bothered with all this FB/CA clusterfuck. I've even read journalists who think that it's ok for FB to track you since they give you their platform for free. So basically it's just us against everyone else and frankly I don't see this going further.

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Re:To opt out of Facebook’s tracking, I’m going to have to j... by rebeccaskinner on Sunday April 15, 2018 @10:30AM (#16842771)

A fundamental problem is that there are no, or at least vanishingly few, unbiased parties left to report the reality of the situation to lay people. Journalism is near-universally funded by the same privacy invading advertising systems that they would be criticizing Facebook for building- and that’s putting aside the direct dependence companies have on Facebook itself.

Journalists aren’t stupid, they know what hand feeds them, and they are strongly dis-incentivized to call too much attention to the fiasco of advertising driven monetization models.

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Re:To opt out of Facebook’s tracking, I’m going to have to j... by elorant on Sunday April 15, 2018 @10:36AM (#16842808)

On the other hand, FB and Google take 80% of online ad spending so traditional online media have every reason to stand against them.

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