Posted on 08/23/2016 7:40:27 AM PDT by snarkpup
Facebook users are constantly being bombarded with ads, but sometimes one shows up on the screen that is so well-suited, it's as if the site has tapped into your thoughts.
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'The majority of promoted topics that I see in my Facebook feed are relevant to my interests, and they're worth clicking on more often.'
However, others are not sold that Facebook's methods are completely innocent.
Peter Eckersley, the chief computer scientist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, calls them 'the most invasive in the world.'
'Facebook's business model is to amass as much first-party and third-party data on you as possible, and slowly dole out access to it,' Eckersley said.
'If you're using Facebook, you're entrusting the company with records of everything you do. I think people have reason to be concerned about that.'
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Not really. We're all anonymous to each other.
Facebook only knows what you tell it. You can call yourself ‘BankWalker’ on there as well.
Facebook knows nothing about me since I’ve never had an account with them, and never will.
I have FB so i can play Words With Friend. But i sure wish they would stop taking pictures of me in my underwear!
It is mostly used for social interaction between people that know each other, unlike this great Free Republic site of ours.
That being said, I’ve read recently (right here in fact) that FB can request proof of ID and close your account if you don’t provide it.
It tells you, in the article, how and where to turn off Facebook’s ability to read your preferences.
I’m turning them off when I get home.
I play with them.
I often enter random cities and speak of travel (and soon an ad appears related to that)
Facebook is tied in with google, so if you do a google search ads will appear on what your search
I will do random and opposing searches.
They want people to tag photos so they can use their photo id - I tag my name to various people (and objects, if it looks like a face you can name it).
There is really nothing new with what facebook and google and thousands of other sites are doing. They gather information on the eyeballs. With computers they are just more efficient. But the rule still is GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT.
I hate to inform all my freeper friends that say they do not use facebook or twitter, it does not matter. I suspect that while FreeRepublic does not gather and keep information, there is nothing to stop a third party from doing so.
Add to that the fact that while you may not be putting anything on facebook, your friends and family most certainly are and so like it or not, they have you in their data base.
If you combined all the data collected on me thru google and FB and designed product ads to sell to me, you would go out of business very quickly.
The first glaring piece of meta-data they would discover is that this person doesnt buy anything that we advertise to him, EVER.
That’s mostly what it’s used for yes. But you can also create an anonymous account and use it for media aggregation.
highest bidders or all who meet the minimum price!
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You can confirm your identity in 1 of 3 ways: A government ID, two non-government options or 2 different forms of ID that both show your authentic name...
This site doesn’t data mine.
Facebook is another one of the Governments baby’s that is spawned to glen voluntary information from unsuspecting participants. FB gives police and government intelligence agencies worldwide precise information on users. Imagine how much work it would have taken the KGB to keep these kind of tabs on citizens....
Facebook is welcome to know who I vote for on Dancing with the Stars.
Yahoo is getting my profile wrong because they’re targeting me with Hillary ads. No way baby!
OK folks. For those newcomers to the internet: Anything you post, upload or send in email, is available to anyone who wants it. Forever.
This was demonstrated to me in 1995 by the friend who first introduced me to the internet and helped build my first web site. During the late nineties, as a sales and marketing exec, I learned of emerging technology that tracked internet activity to facilitate targeted advertising. It is the digital age version of Nielsen ratings; a tool for marketers to use to get the most from their advertising dollars. (Christmas tip: get on your wife’s computer or phone and search fly fishing gear, outboard motors etc. She’ll get the hint.)
The internet only knows what you tell it; have you told the internet about your guns? Your SHTF getaway plans? How you plan to get rid of the neighbor’s noisy dog or that you have booby trapped your campaign yard signs? Where you go and what you do on the internet is no secret. It is like living in a small town where people know you like fishing and are constantly suggesting this fishing lodge or that rod and reel; and everyone will know if you walk into the adult bookstore and come out with a plain brown wrapped package; and anyone who wants to can read your mail.
Seriously. You really should have figured this out by now.
Yahoo is an extension of the LEFT.
They are bombarding EVERYONE with Hillary adds.
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