Facebook Offers Privacy Checkup to All 1.28 Billion Users

Re:Facebook Offers Privacy Checkup to All 1.28 Billion Users by us0r on Thursday May 22, 2014 @04:22PM (#7786250)

I never understood this argument of "selling your information" to advertisers. As far as I'm aware they allow advertisers to target demographics. What company that sells advertising does not?

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Re:Facebook Offers Privacy Checkup to All 1.28 Billion Users by sidcool on Friday May 23, 2014 @01:08AM (#7788070)

I think what that means is the advertisers don't know your identity as a target. Facebook shows them filters for whom the advertisers want to serve their ads. If you click on an ad, then probably your identity is shared, not otherwise.

This is based on my limited knowledge of display advertising, so please correct me.

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Re:Facebook Offers Privacy Checkup to All 1.28 Billion Users by the_watcher on Thursday May 22, 2014 @05:19PM (#7786622)

The only ones that don't end up with the lowest common denominator of ads: scams, insurance, loans, and diploma mills, which is as much of a UX loss as a revenue loss.

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