Comment on Meta sues FTC, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ Facebook data

dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Poggervania@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, the United Corporations of America loves milking kids for money because they hope and bank on kids annoying the shit out of their parents to spend money on whatever is being marketed towards them

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s why toys and sugary cereals run alongside cartoons. We should just ban advertising toward children.

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    • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Seriously, I’d rather just ban overt advertisement. Labels on buildings and stylings? Sure, what ever, peacock your actual location all you want. Have tons of info and material available for people? Definitely. Have catalogs for people to look through where you layout your stuff and make it look nice? Sure. Search engines? Duh. But straight up ads? Nah. Such a waste of time. Let peoples’ interest drive the views again.

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• cedarmesa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    At this point I’m wondering who the fuck is still using Facebook

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The ones who never matured from the time they opened their FB account. So, the old who have only backslid, and the exceptionally stupid, who will always act like children.

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What other, better options exist for allowing friends and family you are not in daily contact with to keep up with the goings on in your life that you choose to share?

      Legitimately I’m wondering how most people are keeping in touch nowadays. What other systems have people moved on to? What manual processes are people using?

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    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m more wondering why the fuck anyone is still using g Facebook.

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    • restingboredface@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unfortunately, old people who have no boundaries and believe it’s acceptable to post photos and details of themselves and others on their public account.

      If you have older parents or grandparents online, watch out. Even without an account of your own, Facebook knows you.

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• lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not to defend Meta, but monetizing doesn’t imply selling. Factories monetize their equipment, for example, but they don’t sell it if they want to stay in business.

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  • dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My guy, what do you think an ad network uses people’s data for? This is not even a hypothetical situation. They will absolutely sell anything they can to some dogshit corporation, for targeted adverts

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Targeting ads. Not selling the data you use to target ads, because that would be fucking stupid.

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  • restingboredface@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sure but they are still maintaining data and selling access to it insights from it or ads targeted based on it to third parties.

    It’s being used to target content to minors for the purpose of selling directly to them, influencing their choices without any kind of real oversight.

    Even if the data isn’t sold directly it’s still not okay.

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sure. I’m just taking issue with the ridiculously common claim that advertising companies sell your data. It’s false and doesn’t even make sense.

      It also matters because I’d much rather a few big companies have my data than a bunch of Russian and Chinese data brokers. Even if you think they’re no worse individually, there are a lot more of them.

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