DISQUS

Mathew's comments: Facebook bows to the Beacon haters

  • howardlindzon · 2 years ago
    so you are saying you are not breathessly awiting my updates ?
  • mathewi · 2 years ago
    Always, Howard. Always.
  • Brian K · 2 years ago
    The deal is, they are tracking my information without my permission to do so. Of course, all sites do this--and you tacitly agree to it by using a web site--but no other site (to my limited knowledge) tracks across the web.
    Nevermind the information is useless--it's the premise. Why not just track my bank accounts, so i can purchase their stupid gifts faster, or report to everyone when I'm broke. Or track when I'm looking at porn, or my heart rate, or whatever.
    It's true, no one would really care about my doing any of those things, nevertheless, it's an irritating transformation of human society to this obsession on the individual and their inane activities, as well as a corporate invasion of privacy.
  • mathewi · 2 years ago
    Thanks for the comment, Brian -- but lots of other companies track
    what you're doing, including Microsoft (if you use Internet Explorer).
    They just don't make it obvious that they do, and they don't make it
    obvious how to opt out either -- in other words, they do exactly the
    same thing people are criticizing Facebook for doing.
  • leigh · 2 years ago
    What's your point M...that Microsoft ISNT evil??? Lol. You're killing me today....
  • mathewi · 2 years ago
    Well, not any *more* evil :-)
  • Leigh · 2 years ago
    I guess too many of my friends are social justice lawyers who work with people all the time who get screwed by this type of transient information. Seriously the stories I have heard would blog (ha, Freudian slip) your mind. And it goes on all the time.

    But sure, for most of us tech writers, rich guys in NYC, doctors, digital executives, etc. - chances are we'll probably be just fine. Can't imagine my shopping habits will have anyone thinking very much other than I have great taste. ;-)

    p.s if you keep disagreeing with me I'll make you buy lunch
  • mathewi · 2 years ago
    Ouch -- that lunch comment was harsh. Point taken :-)