In all seriousness, how is that possible any other way? Take the example he gives about log in. If you want a website to automatically know who you are without logging in, please let me know how that is possible without automatically sending identifying information to the website.
And I prefer seeing good ads over bad ones
Privacy and usability are not orthogonal, though Facebook will definitely go leaps and bounds beyond themselves to try to convince the public that it is so.
Privacy and usability actually are orthogonal, as the cookie and login issue shows. You will see this again and again in almost every service. People can't offer loans without knowing credit history. Games can't do balanced matchmaking systems without learning about your level of skill. A website can't send you emails unless you give them your email. I could go on, but I think you are upset enough with Facebook that you won't get the point.
Too bad Facebook couldn't figure out a way to remember I prefer a chronological news feed even with cookies.
There probably will be a difference, but I think in actual use, for most people, it will be very small.
For example: If my mother "cleared her history", I really doubt she would notice the worse quality of Facebook and regret deleting her data, as the top-level comment implied. So my point is it's not a move to show how effective the algorithms are, but a privacy-conscious one from Facebook.
It would be unreasonable of anyone to expect to see location-based content if they'd opted out of location sharing.
Trivial example: I can't email you if you withhold email consent.
What I can’t do is email you marketing newsletters the times a week for the next decade, or sell your email address to ‘specially selected trusted partners’.
The collection, storage and processing of personal data is presumed to be unlawful by default, unless it is for a specific, explicit and legitimate purpose. These core principles are set out in Article 5 and they are well worth reading and reflecting on.
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-5-gdpr/
Did the user give you explicit and informed consent for a specific use a specific piece of data? Is your use of data absolutely essential to fulfil your contractual obligations to that user? Are you required by law to collect and store that data? Is your use of data essential to preserve human life? If you can't confidently say yes to at least one of those questions, then you're probably in breach.
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
Most of the advice I've received is to focus on documenting what data you hold, and what you're doing with it. Just by doing that, you'll probably improve your processes. If you did have any problems with the ICO, those documents will go a long way to showing that you took GDPR seriously.
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/
(and maybe article 9) https://gdpr-info.eu/art-9-gdpr/
If you conduct business with an individual, most of time, your legal basis will be the Legitimate interests of both parties, you should only rely on consent for non-necessary part/service (like subscribing to a newsletter, or sharing information for improving the service).
For a good summary of that, I would recommand this ICO document: https://ico.org.uk/media/about-the-ico/consultations/2013551...
This is an excellent feature. I replaced Facebook time with Twitter time a while back and found it even more addicting (because the talent pool is much better and more real-time, and there's an extra sunk-cost fallacy going on with the amount of work required to find good content).
But even more recently, I've been purposefully logging out of Twitter a lot more (and have replaced that with YouTube). Logging back into Twitter now, I see that the "content" there feels less relevant and more boring. This is great for productivity. I just gotta curb the YouTube now - at least with that I can just shunt everything to "Watch Later".
Alright, time to log out of hacker news too.
They do this through a few devious practices, such as the spin doctoring discussed here. One other thing that they do is instead of the option being a check box, it is a selection between two radio buttons and you explicitly have to choose one of them. I suppose this is actually a violation of the GDPR, since it should be disabled by default.
You don't lose value from facebook at all by not opting in. "Show ads that are relevant to me," is an arrogant statement. The actual statement is "Track my browsing to show ads that Facebook believes are relevant to me." I don't use Facebook for the targeted ads, I use it to infrequently receive news about people I know spread out across the globe.
I more was curious of whether the history cleared with Clear History are primary markers for ad targeting or if other data is used, and in reality if enough users don't clear their data but have similar data fingerprints (the non-Clear History data) then Facebook could still present assumptions to target by for those who do clear their history regularly, e.g. it will be a moot point up until say 40% of people regularly are clearing their history and therefore can no longer accurately enough make those assumptions.
Not at all, the NN that does ad targeting has already been trained on the data. Deleting it will make no difference (assuming you believe they actually will delete it)
Sounds like they designed this feature explicitly to show people why they need to provide facebook data. Instead of designing facebook features so that they can enjoyed while preserving privacy, Facebook is making moves to explicitly show how on Facebook privacy is at odds with utilitarianism of their product.