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Facebook Caves To Privacy Protests Over Beacon
jcatcw writes "After weeks of privacy protests over its advertising system, Facebook's CEO announced that users now can turn the system off completely. CEO Zuckerberg said 'We simply did a bad job with this release.' Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, called the announcement from Zuckerberg 'a step in the right direction.'"
Like the kind of people that flock to these types of social networks give two shits about privacy. They'd probably give it up for a tootsie roll in-between clicking on the dancing monkey banners.
There are no dancing monkey banners on Facebook, unless you add them to your own page.
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The temptation to cash out is just too great for most companies. The only reason why Slashdot isn't worse is because of Taco. I'm not sure why though. Does the contract that gives him full editorial control, fail to specify a system of bonuses based upon ad revenue? Or is he just that incorruptible? or I guess its possible that he just wants a fun solid job with a long term future, rather than a quick cash out. He mentioned the topic a bit during the anniversary hubabaloo, but the monetary link wasn't mentioned, although If I were him I wouldn't have mentioned it either.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
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