Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed

Re:Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed by krageon on Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:10AM (#19326608)

You start with a premise: "They are not wrong", but you then don't really make a case for why it doesn't make them wrong. All you say is "if you don't agree with me, that's hubris". That's not a very compelling argument and it's also humorous to me for how ironic that is.

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Re:Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed by hackinthebochs on Thursday March 07, 2019 @06:13AM (#19327160)

There's nothing "ironic" about challenging a unsupported moral claim with its negation. That's usually the only response such claims warrant.

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Re:Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed by smallgovt on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:03PM (#19330381)

I think you'll find a lot of coherent arguments for privacy's value in this thread.

It goes along the lines of: Privacy is valuable because without privacy A, B, and C will be possible. And, we can all agree A, B, and C would be very very bad.

There are two ways to attack this argument: 1) A, B, and C aren't that bad when compared to the benefits of operating in an environment with less privacy. 2) A, B, and C are possible but unlikely. I.e. this is fearmongering.

I tend to go with 2.

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