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Oh look! Facebook just opted you IN without telling you… again

June 4, 2016 by Paul Spoerry 2 Comments



PSA: You Need To Update Your Facebook Privacy Settings Again To Opt Out Of New Targeted Ads
Facebook announced in recent weeks that they’re expanding their advertising empire. With that change, came a stealthy new privacy setting for users — one that all of us are opted-in to …

A new setting has been added that grants Facebook the ability to track and target ads to you while you're not even on FB. Instead of just selling ads on Facebook, or on Facebook platforms (like WhatsApp and Instagram), Facebook is now selling ads everywhere, to everyone, whether or not you have a Facebook account. If you do have a Facebook account, though — like 1.6 billion other humans do — Facebook will also use your Facebook data to sell those ads. And it's opt-in by default without telling you.

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About Paul Spoerry

I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

I have a utility belt full of programming languages and a database of all my knowledge on databases... I practice code fu. Oh, I've also done actual Kung Fu, and have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

I run. I meditate. I dance. I blog at PaulSpoerry.com, tweet @PaulSpoerry, and I'm here on Google+.

I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

Comments

  1. E.Dieter Martin says

    June 4, 2016 at 5:08 pm

    How is that different from Google?

  2. Paul Spoerry says

    June 4, 2016 at 6:03 pm

    The difference is that when you signed up for Google services you agreed to that. Facebook simply decided they wanted to get into non-Facebook advertising and opted user IN to the service by default without warning.

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