News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Guide to Retargeting Someone Else’s Website by slynn12 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @12:30PM (#21774023)
It's a Facebook approved app through and everything stays within Facebook's ecosystem. Check it out: https://blog.repixel.co/2019/07/01/facebook-and-gdpr-complia...
Re:Guide to Retargeting Someone Else’s Website by geofft on Thursday December 12, 2019 @01:44PM (#21774868)
Safari's tracking policy is in large part intended to protect users against the Facebook ecosystem (even though, yes, it is not specific to Facebook or any other domain and just establishes policies for technical behavior): https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/4/17427000/wwdc-apple-safari...

> Cross-site tracking is tracking across multiple first party websites; tracking between websites and apps; or the retention, use, or sharing of data from that activity with parties other than the first party on which it was collected.

I think that having Facebook share tracking information with Repixel and in turn with Repixel's customers counts as "sharing of data from that activity with parties other than the first party on which it was collected," no?

Re:Guide to Retargeting Someone Else’s Website by slynn12 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @01:54PM (#21774971)
Where are you seeing that sentence that you quoted? I'm curious to take a look. I don't see it in the verge article that you linked to. Apologies if I'm missing something.
Re:Guide to Retargeting Someone Else’s Website by geofft on Thursday December 12, 2019 @01:58PM (#21775024)
Sorry, that was unclear. That sentence is from the WebKit/Safari policy which I linked earlier in the thread. (The Verge article is a synthesis of the stated policy and the fact that the WWDC presentation clearly had a screenshot of blocking Facebook cookies.)
Re:Guide to Retargeting Someone Else’s Website by slynn12 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @02:30PM (#21775387)
All good, thanks for clarifying! I'll take a look tonight.
Re:Guide to Retargeting Someone Else’s Website by giggles_giggles on Thursday December 12, 2019 @01:40PM (#21774812)
To someone like me who has not used Facebook in over half a decade and finds the organization creepy, this is most certainly the opposite of a selling point.
Re:Guide to Retargeting Someone Else’s Website by slynn12 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @01:55PM (#21774982)
As long as I'm seeing ads, I'd rather them be relevant. Just my $0.02. But if you're avoiding the platform altogether I get that.
Re:Guide to Retargeting Someone Else’s Website by JohnFen on Thursday December 12, 2019 @07:29PM (#21778041)
> As long as I'm seeing ads, I'd rather them be relevant.

Fair enough. My preference is different. I don't care about seeing ads, and I couldn't care less if they're "relevant" or not. But I strongly object to the data collection required to target ads and want it to stop.

Re:Guide to Retargeting Someone Else’s Website by paulgb on Thursday December 12, 2019 @02:20PM (#21775276)
Sorry if this comes off as rude, but do you have a financial relationship with repixel?
Re:Guide to Retargeting Someone Else’s Website by anoncake on Friday December 13, 2019 @12:08AM (#21779267)
That sounds backwards. If my ad blocker fails and I'm forced to see an ad, I want it to be as irrelevant as possible to minimize its effect.
Re:Guide to Retargeting Someone Else’s Website by anoncake on Friday December 13, 2019 @12:09AM (#21779272)
So what?