Facebook shouldn't be allowed to buy Giphy, says UK regulator

Re:Facebook shouldn't be allowed to buy Giphy, says UK regul... by lloydatkinson on Sunday August 15, 2021 @01:02PM (#28190333)

Good. Many services use giphy and I don’t want to need a Facebook account to use gifs.

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Re:Facebook shouldn't be allowed to buy Giphy, says UK regul... by berkes on Sunday August 15, 2021 @01:59PM (#28190791)

Even if you can keep using it without such an account, it is another datasource for Facebook. Another way to track you in your daily use of tech.

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Re:Facebook shouldn't be allowed to buy Giphy, says UK regul... by isoskeles on Sunday August 15, 2021 @09:54PM (#28194245)

I believe they’re just going to log your IP and sell that data to other companies. If someone posts a gif from Giphy in my Slack workspace, FB could sell my IP and Slack metadata to anyone else, and then I probably start seeing ads (if I’m not using uBlock for some reason) for B2B stuff related to my job. Maybe if a gif gets posted to “#engineering” they show me Software Engineer job ads.

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Re:Facebook shouldn't be allowed to buy Giphy, says UK regul... by evad3r on Sunday August 15, 2021 @08:01PM (#28193703)

I wouldn't see them enforcing needing a Facebook account, in the same way that you don't need a Facebook account to use Messenger, Instagram or WhatsApp.

That's almost worse in a way.

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