I thought they had been doing that for like..15+ years.

It's unprovable that revoking consent does anything. I like how they frame it too:

“We aren’t collecting any new data as part of this update,” the blog post says. “This is about using information that businesses already send to us to further improve your experience.”

What am I doing wrong? Why aren't businesses just gifting me cash? Businesses just funnel data to Facebook for free which Facebook uses for profitable ventures? Jeez. Facebook's revenue is in the billions. Boy are those businesses being fleeced! just sending free data to Facebook. Imagine if users were spending money on mobile-computers, electricity and data-connections to send data to Facebook for free too! Everyone must be chumps!

That unknowable consent revocation is pretty important. Australia is mulling over law that forces social-media companies to disable algorithmic feeds. Unless you have agents embedded in those companies it's impossible to discern whether or not your feed has not been modified by an 'algorithm'. This looks like Facebook trying to get ahead of these sort of implications: "Look you have a toggle! Toggle it! No further questions! You've turned it off; you pressed the toggle! What more do you want from us?! We'll meddle in democracies to ensure you win! Let's be friends!"

I have a bare bones FB profile. No friends, no photos, no pic. I only use it for my neighborhood's page. I used to use a work profile on my phone for my remote job and my work uses the usual stuff like Outlook and Teams. One day, I logged into FB and it was suggesting my co-workers as friends. These are people who live hundreds of miles away but somehow FB was able to connect them to me even though all that work stuff is on my work profile and I access FB on my personal profile which is supposed to be completely separate.

I'm pretty sure that has always been the case and they're just openly advertising it as a marketing attempt now because antitrust is dead

it's gonna be a lot of 'fuck Facebook and fuckerburg' activity then

In the process of Felivelize people around me and de-Zukerberg friends and family

In my case it will not, for sure.

Meta? That company still exists?

Tell me, Mr Anderson - what good is collecting data to target ads if I never... log in?

I keep a Facebook account - deactivated - for one reason only: some of my peeps still use Messenger.

Meta letting you run Messenger on a deactivated account is a concession. Also a long con.

One I intend to keep permanently unprofitable.

is this new news

I was under the impression that they were reading whatever other cookies they could to more or less do this for like decades now. Only difference is they get the info on what made it into the cart I guess.

They won't be doing that if you just don't use their site tho 🤷

no meta here but... you know what would make ppl participate more? stop hiding their friends and family. when i left meta that's what i remember. what is the point if im not seeing fam?