It seems most the people commenting on this have never used Facebook.
The news channels are covering this as another "Privacy Fumble." They pick this headline because it is something most any idiot can understand.
Privacy fumble is not the case here. Nobody on Facebook likes the "News Feed" feature because it ACTIVLEY BROADCASTS your information front page center. It would be as if somebody constantly followed you with a camera in public places, emailing your actions to your "friends" without asking you.
It is idea that the information is PUSHED out to other users that is the issue.
The real initial question is: Why would an advertiser want to pay money to reach someone not within their target market?
The answer: They don't.
The follow-up question: Why then don't advertisers use these available technologies to tackle this issue?
The answer: They are behemoth, archacic, and stupid.
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this is going to fly like a bag of dead babies.
It seems most the people commenting on this have never used Facebook. The news channels are covering this as another "Privacy Fumble." They pick this headline because it is something most any idiot can understand. Privacy fumble is not the case here. Nobody on Facebook likes the "News Feed" feature because it ACTIVLEY BROADCASTS your information front page center. It would be as if somebody constantly followed you with a camera in public places, emailing your actions to your "friends" without asking you. It is idea that the information is PUSHED out to other users that is the issue.
The real initial question is: Why would an advertiser want to pay money to reach someone not within their target market? The answer: They don't. The follow-up question: Why then don't advertisers use these available technologies to tackle this issue? The answer: They are behemoth, archacic, and stupid.
First thing I thought. A competitive move to connect advertisers to google checkout is the likley real driver behind "combating click fraud".