Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?
by Nextgrid on Saturday July 16, 2022 @11:01AM
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You could argue that SO at least gives you some benefit - there are badges you can earn for popular shared links.
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Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?
by thih9 on Saturday July 16, 2022 @11:06AM
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FB also claims their tracking is beneficial, they can show you more relevant ads this way.
Perhaps there are benefits to everything; is the cost, i.e. losing privacy, worth it?
Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?
by Nextgrid on Saturday July 16, 2022 @12:32PM
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True but the same can be achieved with just asking the person about their needs/interests or using only public data for ad targeting.
Second, this only applies to Facebook users, and yet they also track non-users despite them not even going to be showed any advertising.