I forgot how when I click a like button on a foreign page, face book is keeping data about what pages I am visiting and (who,what,when,where,how) and is selling that click data about me to the highest bidder (and I cant turn it off) to advertisers or worse government agencies doing warrent-less surveillance.
I'm never clicking a facebook like button again until I can turn off user website tracking.
By 'selling that click data about me' you realize that the only monetization tool Facebook has is a anonymized and aggregated ads tool...it doesn't sell click data.
I find there's a general perception (especially Slashdot) that this isn't the case, I'm not sure why given that Facebook's been fairly explicit about it in the past
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I forgot how when I click a like button on a foreign page, face book is keeping data about what pages I am visiting and (who,what,when,where,how) and is selling that click data about me to the highest bidder (and I cant turn it off) to advertisers or worse government agencies doing warrent-less surveillance.
I'm never clicking a facebook like button again until I can turn off user website tracking.
You don't even need to click the like button. Facebook get the information as soon as you view the foreign page.
If you use Chrome(-ium), there's an extension for that. I believe there is an equivalent FF extension out there as well.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambag...
People, including myself, seem to forget that Google has a far more pervasive network that has been operating for much longer.
By 'selling that click data about me' you realize that the only monetization tool Facebook has is a anonymized and aggregated ads tool...it doesn't sell click data.
I find there's a general perception (especially Slashdot) that this isn't the case, I'm not sure why given that Facebook's been fairly explicit about it in the past