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What do you guys think of everything that's happening with Facebook?
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Facebook targets ads with data users didn’t share with the platform
https://marketingland.com/facebook-...sers-didnt-share-with-the-platform-249136/amp
https://marketingland.com/facebook-...sers-didnt-share-with-the-platform-249136/amp
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Facebook's latest data blunder is mind-blowingly bad, and users should be burning with rage
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-latest-security-blunder-is-mind-blowingly-serious-2018-10
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-latest-security-blunder-is-mind-blowingly-serious-2018-10
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Have fun with this kind of thing, just the tip of the iceberg.
U.K. to Roll Out First-of-Its-Kind Digital Tax
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-to-roll-out-developed-worlds-first-digital-tax-1540831931
U.K. to Roll Out First-of-Its-Kind Digital Tax
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-to-roll-out-developed-worlds-first-digital-tax-1540831931
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Uhmmmm oopsie daisy...
Facebook Ads Manager problems affected many advertisers, days ahead of Black Friday
A number of advertisers trying to access their Facebook and Instagram campaigns on Tuesday were met with few options.
https://marketingland.com/facebook-...advertisers-days-ahead-of-black-friday-252168
Facebook Ads Manager problems affected many advertisers, days ahead of Black Friday
A number of advertisers trying to access their Facebook and Instagram campaigns on Tuesday were met with few options.
https://marketingland.com/facebook-...advertisers-days-ahead-of-black-friday-252168
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He's a fucking liar. Pretty bad when the NY Times are calling you out...
Inside Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/world/facebook-moderators.html
Inside Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/world/facebook-moderators.html
Hey @Alexander Lau, kids need money for Fornite and will literally do anything for it. I can see the targeted ads:
Play Fornite? Need money without asking mom? click here
Play Fornite? Need money without asking mom? click here
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Why Apple went to war with Facebook and Google this week
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/1...k-google-app-store-pull-blocked-vergecast-339
NP: So Facebook very famously owned a VPN called Onavo, which is a bad name. And so famously Facebook bought this VPN company. They let people install Onovo protectors, and the app ran all the traffic through this VPN to say you were more secure but really what Facebook was doing was monitoring this traffic to see which apps were taking off, which features you were using. So this is how they discovered that WhatsApp was taking off. I believe before they acquired WhatsApp, it’s how they discovered Snapchat Stories were taking off, and they cloned it to Instagram Stories. So Facebook is monitoring user behavior on the iPhone through this novel protect app.
At one point, I believe they even had a tab in Facebook. The big blue app that said Onovo Protect to try to get you to install a novel protect, which is insane. This all came out. Apple said “Wait wait wait. This is not cool. We do not want anyone.” We saw Facebook monitoring user data. That’s why they banned Onovo protect. But it turns out, the same code and the headers of the research app were being used for this Facebook research. So Facebook is running a research program where everyone is focused on teens. I think it was more than teens, right?
NP: They were targeting people ages 13 to 35, so a broad definition of “teen,” but teen is in the mix where you would get like a $20 gift card if you sign up for this program through one of their vendors. They would send you the certificate that lets you side-load apps onto an iPhone. Famously, you cannot silo apps onto an iPhone — you have to go through the App Store — but if you have an enterprise certificate, you can deploy apps without the App Store. So Facebook would send you their enterprise certificate, you would side-load this app that had a ton of a Navajo code in it, and it would monitor everything that was happening on your phone. In some cases, it appears they were able to bypass that layer on even encrypted chats, too.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/1...k-google-app-store-pull-blocked-vergecast-339
NP: So Facebook very famously owned a VPN called Onavo, which is a bad name. And so famously Facebook bought this VPN company. They let people install Onovo protectors, and the app ran all the traffic through this VPN to say you were more secure but really what Facebook was doing was monitoring this traffic to see which apps were taking off, which features you were using. So this is how they discovered that WhatsApp was taking off. I believe before they acquired WhatsApp, it’s how they discovered Snapchat Stories were taking off, and they cloned it to Instagram Stories. So Facebook is monitoring user behavior on the iPhone through this novel protect app.
At one point, I believe they even had a tab in Facebook. The big blue app that said Onovo Protect to try to get you to install a novel protect, which is insane. This all came out. Apple said “Wait wait wait. This is not cool. We do not want anyone.” We saw Facebook monitoring user data. That’s why they banned Onovo protect. But it turns out, the same code and the headers of the research app were being used for this Facebook research. So Facebook is running a research program where everyone is focused on teens. I think it was more than teens, right?
NP: They were targeting people ages 13 to 35, so a broad definition of “teen,” but teen is in the mix where you would get like a $20 gift card if you sign up for this program through one of their vendors. They would send you the certificate that lets you side-load apps onto an iPhone. Famously, you cannot silo apps onto an iPhone — you have to go through the App Store — but if you have an enterprise certificate, you can deploy apps without the App Store. So Facebook would send you their enterprise certificate, you would side-load this app that had a ton of a Navajo code in it, and it would monitor everything that was happening on your phone. In some cases, it appears they were able to bypass that layer on even encrypted chats, too.
✨ AI Highlights
Automotive professionals debate Facebook's future after a major privacy scandal, with most agreeing the platform remains effective for car advertising despite damaged public perception. Key tensions emerge between those who view Facebook's ad targeting capabilities as still superior (Adam Schaefer) and those concerned the trust erosion will be harder to overcome (craigh, Alexander Lau), though Chris Cachor notes users may simply migrate to Instagram rather than abandon Facebook entirely. The thread reveals broader concern about misinformation and data privacy practices, with Rick Buffkin raising an intriguing observation about Facebook's ironic choice to defend itself through traditional media rather than its own platform.
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