Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling

Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by somehnacct3757 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @08:44AM (#33246309)

It's funny that digital billboard space is the main reason they cite.

To me the much bigger threat was that Giphy had integrations into many other chat and messaging apps which Facebook also competes with. Buying Giphy gave them new insight into competitor usage. Facebook could see which chat apps you were using and who you were talking to on them. All they had to do was fingerprint the gifs you sent to your friends

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by i_have_an_idea on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @09:05AM (#33246513)

you know they can already buy that data from ad networks, right?

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by simiones on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @09:41AM (#33246978)

What do ad networks have to do with the messengers I use? Few if any messenger apps actually sell ad space inside the app.

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by weird-eye-issue on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:34AM (#33248935)

Source?

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by joshmanders on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @03:17PM (#33252485)

You know they're an ad network and that data is like gold to sell to their buyers, right?

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