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Facebook Monitoring Your Reactions To Serve You Ads, Warn Belgian Police (independent.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: Belgian police have asked citizens to shun Facebook's "Reactions" buttons to protect their privacy. In February, five new "Reaction" buttons were added next to the "Like" button to allow people to display responses such as sad, wow, angry, love and haha. According to reports, police said Facebook is able to use the tool to tell when people are likely to be in a good mood -- and then decide when is the best time to show them ads. "The icons help not only express your feelings, they also help Facebook assess the effectiveness of the ads on your profile," a post on Belgian's official police website read.The Independent reports: "By limiting the number of icons to six, Facebook is counting on you to express your thoughts more easily so that the algorithms that run in the background are more effective," the post continues. "By mouse clicks you can let them know what makes you happy. "So that will help Facebook find the perfect location, on your profile, allowing it to display content that will arouse your curiosity but also to choose the time you present it. If it appears that you are in a good mood, it can deduce that you are more receptive and able to sell spaces explaining advertisers that they will have more chance to see you react."
To spy on us together.
In fact, I wonder why they limit internet in jail, they could spy on their prisoners just that much more effectively.
It doesn't get any less news than this.
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I see Captain Obvious is in charge of the Belgian police.
Everything Facebook does is to support its ad-based revenue model. "More options for users" is not the same as "more options for the customer", since the users with profiles are not the customer, the ad agencies are.
Why wouldn't any "social media" platform do exactly this? Is this news to anyone?
Seriously, the solution to being annoyed by Facebook is... DON'T USE FACEBOOK!
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Why would Facebook warn the Belgian police, as the title claims?
"Free" service? No, sucking on you and making a buck on it, that what it boils down to.
When they came out, I studied their terms of use, did not like it at all, skipped it and never looked back.
Every now and then, there are news about this service that this is not right, that is fishy etc., so why bother at all?
The essence of this is rotten, anyone else may enjoy it, not my game, got nicer things to do.....
There's ads on Facebook? Where?
I was happy, why did you show me ads and made me angry?
Oh wait, I've an adblock, I can stay happy.
...and feed the NSA database.
What happens is every time I'm shown an ad I hate the next dozens posts I see? Will facebook stop showing me ads?
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The police can give all sorts of advice, so long as they do not lie compel or act against the community why not? It is not like they tell people not to use
facebook, just explain the costs of doing so. Most people don't know about how facebook works, they know it works though advertising but not so much more, the advice is real and will protect the privacy of the people. Why *can* they not give advice, why *should* they not give such advice?
Anyone have a toll free number for Belgian Police?
I'm having some problems with Windows and it sounds like they know their stuff and don't have anything better to do, so I'm thinking they might be able to provide me with some tech support.
Like all smart nerds, I block all ads, tracking beacons, LSOs, you name it. I have not seen an ad in years and have no plans on doing so. Using Disconnect as well as the Social blocking goodies from uBlock Origin means I suffer none of this.
You just gotta love this: when the police does nothing more useful than stuff their face with donuts and coffee, people complain - and rightfully so. When they do something useful, like warning people about the evils of Facebook, people still get pissed off.
Come on dude, give the fuzz a break and encourage them to do this more often.
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i'm blocked from a lot of posts from sponsored content and many pages linked to from adverts. my mission is to be as rude as possible to get them to block me to save the effort. as long as it doesn't contain hate speech there's nothing illegal about being a massive jerk.
Can UBlock do 17 items hosts do 4 speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. bad sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS
6.) Protect vs. poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam bad links
9.) Protect vs. phish bad links
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get by dns blocks
12.) Avoid dns request logs
13.) Speed up 2 ways (adblocks + hardcodes)
14.) Work on anything webbound multiplatform.
15.) Ez data control
16.) Block ads more efficiently
17.) UBlock now uses hosts (no DNS benefits vs. tracker or dns poisoning) - poor imitation = "sincerest form of flattery"
?
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Nope, get off their asses, get off Facebook and go catch thieves, murders, rapists, kidnappers, business criminals, etc.
With a link to the article (google translate), it is far better. It is a communication of the federal police and more accurately the CCU (Computer Crime Unit). It is one of role of this unit. Privacy is important in Belgium and tracking users without their consent is a crime.
Haven't you people got the message yet? Go back to email lists or (gasp!) telephone calls to stay in touch with people. After you exclude the fake online-only friends, most people will be down to about a dozen anyway, easy enough to manage.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
No bigs. I haven't seen an ad in years.
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Just get to the permanent butt probes and get it over with.
who cares
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
I do not fear ads. Even without adblocker. Let them tailor the ads.
I fear their control over me and me losing control. ... and people will read it less. Emphasise it and more people will click, read and notice.
First just the usability. I fear, that they optimize my timeline and stuff so i miss things, which i wanted to see (because i want to see what i subscribed for, not what facebook thinks which is relevant to me)
Seconds, the control. Serve me more of the one side, less of the other one. You may be able to manipulate me that way. Hide stuff, make it harder to find
Optimizing ads is a business model i could accept. Even using my content and feeding it into the systems of the advertisers would be okay in a perfect world, where i can be sure it is never used out of scope. There would be no problem with data collections, even ones which are never deleted, if it would be clear, that they never leak, get abused or change scope. An advertiser with a whole dossier about me would be no danger, if i could be sure he won't cooperate with the next facebook to lead me to the "correct" political articles.
But in the real world, data is collected, then it's minded and used for whatever idea somebody has. It's sold and bought and the ToS said they are allowed to do so. The new startup buys it as soon as it has enough money and they know you even before you sign up. And they use it to make you sign up, not just to tailor ads to you. They use it to sell you things (you would not have bought otherwise) or make you pay in other ways. ... you do not know.
And finally there are political actors, which make companies use the data in their sense. If it's just telling them which policial claim will get them popularity or if it's serving you the correct content to form your opinion
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I often honestly forget Facebook even has ads. Gg uBlock Origin.
Since when was it a good idea to limit the customer's expression of moods to 6? Or indeed any number?
I get that many services limit post response buttons (Like most prominently). And I'm well aware that querying such responses is made much easier when the responses are constrained. However I've never considered a Like button a mood indicator. And when it's cast as a mood indicator, it just seems like a terrible idea to limit the user to some set number that makes data analysis easier. You either alienate and drive people who are unhappy with the choices offered. Or you push them to make a selection that's off in some way. Or they become lurkers.
Is that the height of customer profiling technology? Is that customer service?
"He looked at a Jennifer Lawrence picture for 2 1/2 minutes. Serve up a pizza ad!"
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Click on a random reaction button for every post you see. (Or alternatively, click on the same reaction button for everything.)
The only amazing thing here, is that people willingly log into someone else's web site and are amazed that the owners are doing things like this.
It's their site, not yours. You can not expect any rights or any sort of privacy when you connect to someone's site that you have no control over.
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Really? This is news? For nerds?
"lt;dr" is the correct response to most of my posts.
Can UBlock do 17 items hosts do 4 speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. bad sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS
6.) Protect vs. poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam bad links
9.) Protect vs. phish bad links
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get by dns blocks
12.) Avoid dns request logs
13.) Speed up 2 ways (adblocks + hardcodes)
14.) Work on anything webbound multiplatform.
15.) Ez data control
16.) Block ads more efficiently
17.) UBlock now uses hosts (no DNS benefits vs. tracker or dns poisoning) - poor imitation = "sincerest form of flattery"
?
Hosts = native vs. illogically "Bolting on 'MoAr'" & not ClarityRay blockable like addons.
APK
P.S.=> Hosts do MORE w/ less in fast kernelmode & start before REDUNDANT inefficient slow usermode addons (as 1st resolver)
Hosts ~3mb (current data) vs. threats/ads. UBlock = 63++ MB -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...