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Re:Off-Facebook Activity by high_derivative on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:42AM (#20748219)
'The off-Facebook activity setting isn't currently available to you right now.'

Smart, announcing it without it being usable, so when it's silently rolled out later people will have forgotten about it. Never change, FB.

Re:Off-Facebook Activity by moneil971 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:49AM (#20748317)
It’s rolled out in Ireland, South Korea and Spain to start, more countries are coming soon.
Re:Off-Facebook Activity by high_derivative on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:58AM (#20748426)
Sorry, but my point stands. In Facebook's case, there is absolutely zero reason to assume good intentions, give the benefit of the doubt, have general good-will, or believe its employees regarding privacy aims.
Re:Off-Facebook Activity by la_barba on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:26PM (#20748788)
Which social media company would you believe regarding privacy?
Re:Off-Facebook Activity by nafey on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:47PM (#20749063)
Nothing such as absolute trust. It has to be a relative comparison. For me it is Apple, Google, Facebook in that order.
Re:Off-Facebook Activity by fghtr on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:35PM (#20748910)
Re:Off-Facebook Activity by rtkwe on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:30PM (#20750997)
Any social with a monthly fee is not going to hit the same network criticality that makes Facebook reign supreme. Attracting people to a new service is hard enough tell them it'll cost 50$ a year and it's hopeless.
Re:Off-Facebook Activity by gregknicholson on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:44PM (#20752985)
The network is not the same thing as the provider. Anyone can use Mastodon for free, so Purism is part of a larger network than just Purism.
Re:Off-Facebook Activity by wpietri on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:56PM (#20749163)
Any social media company whose business isn't renting your eyeballs to the highest bidder.
Re:Off-Facebook Activity by jawilson2 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @01:37PM (#20749648)
Any examples?
Re:Off-Facebook Activity by wpietri on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:34PM (#20752899)
I was mainly kidding, but you could look at Signal as a company like that.
Re:Off-Facebook Activity by saagarjha on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:43PM (#20749005)
Y Combinator?
Re:Off-Facebook Activity by chillydawg on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:30PM (#20748830)
None, obviously.
Re:Off-Facebook Activity by inflatableDodo on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:30PM (#20748832)
The Masons.
Re:Off-Facebook Activity by reroute1 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @02:01PM (#20749923)
It doesn't stand in those countries obviously it is available there. There is no reason to assume bad intentions either and your first statement was just a lot of assumptions and already has been corrected for being not completely true.
Re:Off-Facebook Activity by moju on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:02PM (#20748477)
Not working in Ireland at the moment. Reactivated my account to check.
Re:Off-Facebook Activity by deadwing0 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @01:03PM (#20749249)
They've got you right where they want you.. /s
Re:Off-Facebook Activity by keatonb on Monday August 26, 2019 @11:40AM (#20800740)
Any luck now? I've yet to find anyone actually using the feature and I'm curious what type of browsing data the tool will actually expose.