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Facebook Testing Screen-Tracking Software For Users
cagraham writes "Facebook is currently testing software that would track user's cursor movements, as well as monitor how often a user's newsfeed was visible on their mobile phone, according to the Wall Street Journal. The additional data from such tracking would potentially let Facebook raise their ad prices, as they could deliver even more information about user's on-site behavior to advertisers, such as how long users hovered over specific ads. In order to analyze the extra data, Facebook will utilize a custom version of Hadoop."
Remember folks, you're not the customer, you're the product.
Wonder how long it will be until FB accounts start getting banned because users use AdBlock with this techology...
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I have no problem with them tracking the cursor movement on my mobile phone.
And this is why we block adverts.
I felt bad at first blocking adverts so I didn't do it.
But then websites abused that over and over.
A few text adverts ok, that's just about acceptable.
Just when pages have multiple graphic or even video adverts that's not.
And when they start profiling and tracking you then that's simply abuse.
I now agressively block advertising and tracking on every website I can.
And it's because they didn;'t know when to stop.
a world where once you leave your local shopping store a man follows you around all day, recording where you go, what you look at, what you buy, the music you listen to, the tv shows you watch, which commercials you pay attention to, which ones you don't. There's no law against this, and if you tell him to leave you alone he ignores you. You file an opt out form and he still follows you, but now he hides in the bushes. This is what is happening, but to all of your online life. Thanks for reading.
How would you separate the people using adblock from the people that have no interest in ads and routinely avoid them?
I don't think there's been an ad on Facebook that I've desired to click on. For a company that stripe mines user data as their core business, they seem terrible at advertising (or at least advertising to me).
FaceBook asked the world to raise your hand if you are ok with them using all of your information and habits to get you to click on ads, and every FB account was a hand raised. Even if you only use it to "stay in touch with family and close friends", "I never click ads", "I run AdBlockPlus" ect... You are a number they use to get more money.
So ... we'll be moving from click-fraud to hover-fraud?
Spotify now has its own authentication in parallel with Facebook authentication. And in what geographic area or industry, other than perhaps social marketing, do absolutely all employers require that one's Facebook account not be left blank on the job application?