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submitted 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by countrypunk@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I'm impressed at how obvious of a lie this is and how hard they're trying to do mental gymnastics to justify their argument.

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[-] beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 5 hours ago

To be fair they're not actually lying, they are misrepresenting the truth. Facebook actually doesn't sell your data to third parties because they lease temporary access to it instead. Selling the data would mean they couldn't recapitalize it with the same customers.

Meta's customers couldn't use it to skip doing their own market research and need to already know who they want to advertise to before they buy ads with Facebook. (It does provide insights and analytics about demographics during a campaign as well)

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 22 points 5 hours ago
[-] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 14 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

My apologies. I will update it to have an accessible version.

Edit: accessible transcription has been added

[-] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago
[-] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 1 points 20 minutes ago

I'm using the voyager client on android. There's an option when you make/edit a post to add an accessible caption.

[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 7 points 5 hours ago

Essentially they claim they don’t sell data. They say instead they process it in house and just have advertisers indicate a certain desired profile and then yhey show the ads, without transferring info

[-] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 1 points 19 minutes ago

If that's true, sure. Then they'd not be selling data but profiting off it.

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 hours ago

Because everybody's totally going to believe that. LOL.

this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2024
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