That assumes that because they’re paying they aren’t also tracking. They might not use it for ads directly but they’ll still sell it to others that will show you ads off Facebook.
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LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
The choice is pretty simple there. If anything, it makes it clear to the user in realistic terms how they want to engage with the site.
- Pay up with your money
- Pay up with your data
- Don’t use Facebook
I despise Meta and all their products but they are entitled to charge people for them. Shit ain’t free to run, you know.
I’d much sooner they showed this banner and force people to make a decision than the opposite, which is to “assume” everyone’s fine with their personal data being harvested and exploited without their knowledge or consent.
fuzzzerd@programming.dev 1 year ago
FishFace@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Facebook’s data is way more valuable to Facebook; it doesn’t sell data to third parties. If you think they’re going to sell the non-monetisable data to third parties, you have to believe they’re willing to introduce this (which is likely to be unpopular) in apparent compliance with data protection laws, while still flagrantly violating them in secret, without any of their many employees nor any of their partners’ employees blowing the whistle (and Meta as a company leaks all the time). If they were doing that, why would they bother setting up the fake “pay to not be tracked” flow, when they could pretend to honour people’s free requests not to be tracked?
spraynpray@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
[deleted]FishFace@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That information is not Personally Identifiable Information and so it’s out of scope of privacy protecting law like the GDPR and is probably not what anyone should be worrying about when it comes to data companies.
For those not familiar with the terminology, this means that an advertiser may receive information like, “there exists a person who is 25-30 years old, likes animals, is politically left wing, lives in Michigan” etc - they don’t get that person’s name or other details that allows the advertiser to go away and advertise to you separately. Nor does it allow the government to find out that you like animals by grabbing the traffic.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 year ago
why would they bother setting up the fake “pay to not be tracked” flow
They didn’t. That was not an option.
tabular@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t use Facebook is the best answer but if you must then the next best option is:
- Choose a better Adblock
You don’t own your enemy anything. Stop using spyware as a business model or run out of money.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 year ago
- Pay up with your money
More like give us money, while also paying up with your data, that we won’t use for tracking, only for resell to people that will sell us back tracking details in a maybe not currently illegal way. Also we also are the “people” that will buy the info and sell back the tracking.
CrapConnoisseur@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 year ago
Fun fact: In Illinois we actually got pretty nice checks from Facebook over them violating a biometric law the state has. I believe most of us in the class action lawsuit got around $300 each.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah, even getting them to display this banner is a victory in itself.
LWD@lemm.ee 1 year ago
thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Did you omit option 3 for brevity, or because you think it’s not a valid option?
LWD@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Bazoogle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Offline activity stays offline if it never goes online. If you don’t have a facebook account, then your probably have thousands of facebook accounts. It will generate an identity for each unique advertising ID you use, and you can always generate new ones in most devices.