We all know Facebook is creepy, getting creepier, and shows no sign of slowing down. They are in an arms race to mine your data (you are their product) for their customers.<p>That's why people are leaving.<p>I posted about how the experience of leaving is effortless and generally improved my life -- "Leaving Facebook is easy and fun".<p><a href="http://joshuaspodek.com/leaving-facebook-easy-and-fun" rel="nofollow">http://joshuaspodek.com/leaving-facebook-easy-and-fun</a>
To play devil's advocate, is this any different to what Google is doing at present? Spend a few hours researching, say, hotels in Istanbul, and you'll see the ads that appear on Adwords-enabled sites change accordingly.
And the pressure to hit quarterly targets begins. I have stopped using Facebook frequently since the IPO and now only login in Incognito Mode so that the cookies are sandboxed.
This obviously wouldn't work for smaller sites but ...<p>What if Facebook was transparent about how much they earned on advertising per user. Would you pay to use their service without the ads (and associated tracking cookies)?<p>Hmmm ... as I reread that, it kind of sounds like "protection". But I guess there are a lot of companies that won't make money without shaking down their customers in some way or another.
Advertisers should bid to <i>me</i>. If I accept, Facebook gets a substantial cut.<p>I feel like the privacy issues and misaligned incentives would be corrected if only Facebook saw themselves as a broker between advertisers and consumers rather than Lord of the Data.
I wish somebody would develop a browser which would let me use facebook but automatically hide data from it.<p>Now, let me think... who in the world is a major browser manufacturer who would have an incentive to prevent facebook from being able to serve well-matched advertisements?
> “It will certainly open up Facebook inventory to companies that want to reach people in this manner,” she said.<p>I like how she refers to Facebook users as inventory and people at the same time.<p>Also, I feel like some Bill Hicks ^^
I think people in hacker community are always way too afraid of where privacy is going. We should all understand, it's gone already. Facebook's remarketing is same as Google + Bing. Notice all those Tigerdirect ads. Personally I like ads on sites. They tend to be related content and helps site owners monetize. I think the conversation shouldn't be best way to stop cookie tracking but how to control what you want out there in a single place. It's really crappy to have to worry about privacy settings on hundreds of websites. I don't want to use the web on privacy mode.