Facebook is making it clearer than ever to its users that their social media mutterings will continue to be crammed with ads. Last Friday, the Mark Zuckerberg-run company updated some of the wording of its Ts&Cs, after first proposing the tweaks in the summer. "We proposed these changes because we thought we could improve the …

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Monday 18th November 2013 16:35 GMT Crisp

Adblock

In your face Zuckerberg!

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1. Monday 18th November 2013 16:47 GMT RobHib
  
  Re: Adblock
  
  ...And Ghostery etc also helps.
  
  Still, ads and privacy issues are why my Facebook and Twitter accounts go unused.
  
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2. Monday 18th November 2013 17:27 GMT LarsG
  
  We will see
  
  We will see what happens when the wrong kind of ads 'accidentally' target the wrong 'age group'.
  
  Litigation perhaps? Government intervention perhaps?
  
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3. Tuesday 19th November 2013 01:52 GMT MrDamage
  
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  Dont forget about PrivDog and DoNotTrackMe
  
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Monday 18th November 2013 17:35 GMT Ted Treen

But

"She repeatedly insisted that Facebook cared deeply about the privacy of its 1.2 billion worldwide user base"...

...and I could repeatedly insist that the moon is made of green cheese. Still doesn't make it so.

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1. Monday 18th November 2013 17:42 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: But
  
  I think it's semantically correct that Facebook cares deeply about your privacy. IMHO they care about how they can abuse it. Nice fib.
  
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Monday 18th November 2013 17:43 GMT btrower

Endless stream of lies

If they gave a damn about privacy they could easily make it possible.

Facebook, Apple, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft or any other large player could easily give their user base genuine privacy. They do not want to do that because spying on you is cheap to implement and worth money.

Has anybody seen a clear and coherent plan from any of these players that puts the needs of users first in their security plan?

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Monday 18th November 2013 18:59 GMT Anonymous Coward

Lousy targetting.

When I do see ads on Facebook - which is usually only on my mobile phone they are so wide of the mark in terms of advertising that you wonder if FB have tried at all or if they are just serving up any old crap they can. I can understand that FB need to get income some how but :

I don't run a business so why would I be interested in machines to allow me to take payments for things.

I don't run a business so why would I be interested in Salesforce.com

I'm married (and FB knows it) so the endless stream of adverts for dating sites is a bit stupid - not even offering me clandestine affairs.

Telling it I don't want to see adverts for on-line gambling just seem to make them deliver more of them....

I could go on.....

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1. Tuesday 19th November 2013 07:10 GMT solo
  
  Re: Lousy targetting.
  
  That is a positive sign if FB actually doesn't know you at that personal level.
  
  However, what if advertisers want to specifically target married men because their mining suggests they respond more to dating lures?
  
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Monday 18th November 2013 20:14 GMT Anonymous Coward

Shock! Horror!

"Indeed, a recent study showed that a whopping 83 per cent of kids had lied about their age on social media..."

In other news, so have most adults at some point.

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Tuesday 19th November 2013 15:36 GMT Anonymous Coward

She repeatedly insisted that Facebook cared deeply about the privacy of its 1.2 billion worldwide userbase, but the other 5.8 billion people on the planet said MEH!

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