NO Doesn’t Mean NO To Facebook - Comments Page 2

To snert: Don't be too paranoid. Your bank has your address, personal info and through info about use of your bank cards (debit or credit) they can spy on you without use of your phone. For example, you bought some coffee in Starbucks at 9:17 AM yesterday,so it's easy to get record from security cam there and see all people you've met there. Beware - Big Brother has been watching you way before cell phones were invented!

I don't have FB on my phone, only on my PC. I don't put my personal information on my FB profile, but I do put ridiculously false data in my profile, just to mess with their saleable statistics. I knew they used that data when I posted my employment as trapeze artist with the Peking Circus and promptly received literally hundreds of friend requests from scantily-clad young "ladies" in China, and they were not all circus acts neither.
To avoid the targetted ads from FB stealing my browser history, I use a separate browser just for FB.

Bob, I would like to point out the YOUR page is displaying an ad this morning for a fitness machine I looked at last night on my laptop. Facebook is also displaying an ad for this machine on my iPad. The iPad ad is a bit spooky - I suspect a Google connection? My computer is a Windows machine, so it's not an Apple connection. I'll admit to not having explicit ad-blocking apps, though. As someone else pointed out, a lot of times such ads are displayed for something I just purchased and am not likely to purchase again any time soon!

There is no such thing as a free lunch, or a free website. They all cost money to provide and therefore have to be paid for. The currency for that payment is advertising. If everyone used an ad-blocker, then the 'free' sites would either have to start charging, find ways to defeat ad-blockers, or go out of business.

Given that we are stuck with the advertising, surely it is better to see ads for things that at least might be of interest rather than random ads for things that are totally irrelevant.

To Tim Auger: Yes, nothing is free. But everybody has a choice. The moment a site asks me to turn off ad-blocker I include that site to my personal black list and never visit it again. Same thing for news - some newspapers try to force to subscribe to them when I open their article through link, for example, from Google News, so they instantly go to "exclude source list" and I never see any articles from them any more. The Internet is too big to miss any info. The same info I will find somewhere else. But interpretation of that would be from the source I found, not from the greedy publisher that tried to squeeze money from me restricting access to their version of info. So essentially they try to force me to pay for their point of view. This is the only addition to the info they can offer. They want me to know their point of view - pay me for that. But instead, they want me to pay them. Sorry pals, info is free.

See, this is not so simple. They have actually two products. One is naked info, another is interpretation. In other words interpretation means propaganda. I don't want to pay for propaganda, do you?

Does anyone else here remember several years ago when Dr. Zuck said "personal privacy is dead"? He is succeeding to prove out his prophecy. I deleted the app a while back so I only access it through the browser. I still kind of wonder if facebook can track me when I am using Google Chrome to access it. Laptop, no problem, but phone- I really don't want them to know where I am, nothing to do with advertising because I just blow past that anyway. I just really don't want anyone keeping track of me (except my wife. My wife can keep track all she wants, and she does :-)