Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens

Re:Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Ca... by kraftman on Saturday January 05, 2019 @11:13PM (#18836527)

I didn't downvote, but if I did it would be for the 'I'm floored that people do [common thing that most people do]', rather than the fact they turn of their location services.

As you said, there's no free lunch, but everyone is different and most people have decided that the benefits still outweigh the negatives.

It's like saying "I'm floored that people go to starbucks when they could save so much money making coffee at home and carry it around in a thermos - that's what I do and it is the only way it should be done"

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Re:Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Ca... by spac on Sunday January 06, 2019 @01:54AM (#18836992)

> As you said, there's no free lunch, but everyone is different and most people have decided that the benefits still outweigh the negatives.

There is an argument to be made most people may have made those decisions without fully understanding what the technologies can do and what the consequences are (e.g. the patents in the article). Case in points: my family.

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