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Sheryl Sandberg: Users Would Have To Pay To Opt Out of Facebook Ads (fastcompany.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: In an interview with Today airing Friday morning, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg insisted that Facebook does not sell or give away user information, but made clear that Facebook's entire model is based on being able to share user data with advertisers. If Facebook users don't like its ad-based model, the only other option would be to have users pay for the service so they could keep their data to themselves. As Sandberg told Today: "Our service depends on your data, [so] we don't have an opt-out at the highest level. That would be a paid product."
Payment would actually be worse, since it would allow FB accounts to be tied to a real identity via a credit card or Paypal account.
if only there was a way to send money digitally but wallets cannot be tracked/easily hacked... oh wait, cryptocurrencies are useless and slashdot hates it
opt out of Facebook
You can't. Besides, it's not just facebook. Besides that, they're probably just following orders, you know, the secret ones...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
opt out of Facebook
You can't.
Yes you can, but you are not willing to pay social costs for doing so. Your reptilian brain won't let you stop telegraphing high status and reproductive fitness signals to your fellow monkeys. Your are addicted to endorphins released that way, so it is the same "You can't" that you would hear from a junkie.