If you believe Facebook will stop abusing your privacy if you pay them, I have a bridge to sell you...
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Why is that a phrase? People do occasionally sell bridges.
No. All bridges are gifted by the Bridge God. Attempts to create and then market a bridge results in mysterious death, 103% of the time.
The bridge god told me 60%, I want a refund
Is it a private bridge?
Is it a nice bridge?
Here's a tip that costs less than $10/month - if you want privacy, just don't go on Facebook!
T'ain't enough. Gotta block everything they do, everywhere on the internet.
As someone so eloquently put it: you might not have a facebook profile, but facebook has a you profile.
If you've ever seen a "share on facebook" button on another website, they've been watching you.
Aka a shadow profile.
This has to be illegal. And if it’s not, it should be. There was a good excuse for a while: the internet is too new for regulations to be in place yet. Well we are well past that, but too many people are making money off of them still not being in place. Fuck.
I know for a fact that I have at least 3 different shadow profiles about me being bought and sold on the Internet. They all have different inaccurate information about me. Because I don’t have a direct relationship with the brokers, any attempt by me to correct or remove one of the profiles would just result in yet another profile.
We need global legislation to make it illegal to hold PII on an individual without notifying them of the fact annually. Failure to do so would have GDPR level consequences.
You’ll have to outbid cuckerberg for enough corrupt politicians to do that, and he has a 15 year head start
While Europe may seem to care about privacy, good luck in the states. If you think US regulators care, well, bridges are a hot commodity in this thread and I've got em
Is it just me or is this article written under the false assumption that Facebook not serving you ads is somehow the same as Facebook not collecting your data? Because just yesterday I read an article about Costco being in trouble for allowing Facebook's tracking pixel to collect their customers' HIPPA-protected medical information through their pharmacy's web interface. I can't imagine that serving ads or not serving ads is going to stop Facebook from collecting and exploiting all the personal data it possibly can. Paying to opt out of seeing ads seems like it would, at best, just make Facebook's data mining less visible.
I don’t even use Facebook. In this case, I’m not even receiving any services from them, so they should so stop spying on me. If their answer is “pay us $10/month anyway,” which it seems to be then Facebook is more of a protection racket than a legitimate business.
For $10/mo, you dont see ads while we track everything you do on the internet.
Whats privacy got to do with it?
There's no fucking way. They'll take your $10 and still sell all your shit.
"privacy"
Uninstalling that garbage is free
And you'd better believe that they'll have twice-a-year price hikes, Netflix-style.
They gotta pump up those numbers, those are rookie numbers
And of course the “expert” quoted in favor of giving everything to Facebook is a Washington DC lobbyist.
I don’t understand why everything seems to always require “both sides” in reporting. Some things should be written with an obvious slant and not try to walk it back with a BS quote from the other side.
Not a FB user, yet my firewall and DNS filters at home and on my devices stop a LOT of FBs continual monitoring and profiling. $10/month to stop ads suggests a price to be paid to me and everyone else for using our data, OR they need to let us have an easy way to opt out
Well, getting an extra 10$ each month sounds nice but it’s really not remotely enough to make me use Facebook.
They just need a non-sketchy way to ask you for a donation