Wow Facebook really are pissed about this. Not just because of this but they've complained about it loudly at several events, posted newspaper ads etc.
It must really hurt their tracking. I didn't expect that, after all the app already knows who you are considering you have to log into it. I assumed they would have plenty of ways to correlate activity on other websites and apps. The linking of the ID to other apps must give them a lot of info, much more than I expected.
That means it's a really good thing. I hope Android will soon offer the same option.
For anyone unfamiliar with the term:
As an example, gaslighting is when Alice and Bob had an argument. Alice slaps Bob in the face. Then, three weeks later, Bob goes back to Alice and asks "why did you slap me during that fight" and Alice would go "That never happened, Bob. You slapped me. Are you insane?"
Thus making Bob question his memory and sanity by insisting on a false narrative.
What Facebook is doing is simply trying to lure people, it doesn't mean they are trying to question their sanity.
The writer makes some huge leaps. Why is ad tracking a privacy nightmare? Personally, I like getting ads for things I'm interested in, rather than the spammy viagra/singles near you/etc. ads that were so commonplace on the web before ad tracking.
And how is Facebook telling you exactly what they use the tracking for "gaslighting"?
If every site and advertiser know who you are and knows what you are looking to buy, they might price a product or service for you, meaning higher prices. Just one of the issues with tracking.
No user in their right consciousness would click allow tracking. And Facebook knows that. So Facebook by showing a pre-empt message is essentially trying to picture personalized ads as good. Plus, by saying “support small businesses” they’re simply playing the victim card and diverting the attention away from data privacy. Facebook’s sole aim is to get users to click the allow button. If this isn’t gaslighting then I’m not sure what is.
Basic summary trawl someone’s social media. Get a small handful of their least common interests. Run an ad that only hits a dozen or so people in even a metropolitan area.
This is something that is cheap enough that private investigators and legal firms looking for dirt on a target will do so.
I have one simple policy in 2021. I ignore people who use the term "gaslighting". It's a proxy sign that the person doesn't like the idea, but doesn't have a good complaint and instead just uses modern progressive buzzwords.
Sure, it's about me. I'm a qualified and capable person when it comes to analysis and discourse. What i'm saying is that after seeing the word used frequently, recently, I've found that nearly everybody is either misusing, or overusing it, for internet points. Hence my point about it being a proxy for people who are not arguing in good faith.
if you're making a gaslighting joke: ha-ha. If you are asking a serious epistemological question, then strictly speaking, no. That said, I definitely believe I'm qualified and capable when it comes to discourse, and in general, the feedback I get on my writing is consistent with that.
They're obviously discussing the term in its colloquial context. Further, your rebuttal says more about you than it does the other poster since you're really just arguing that people who don't entertain dogwhistles are failing in some arbitrary regard.
It is not gaslighting when someone contradicts you, or intentionally causes you to doubt your beliefs, or leaves you uncertain of what you believe, or even makes you think that they think you are crazy. Gaslighting is about someone lying to you in a way that causes you to lose trust in your own capabilities as a rational person: your ability to reason, your competence to figure out the truth, your capacity to remember things in a broadly accurate fashion even if you are sometimes fuzzy on details, your knowledge of your own feelings and thoughts and desires. And if your mind is unreliable… well, you’ll have to rely on someone else.
It must really hurt their tracking. I didn't expect that, after all the app already knows who you are considering you have to log into it. I assumed they would have plenty of ways to correlate activity on other websites and apps. The linking of the ID to other apps must give them a lot of info, much more than I expected.
That means it's a really good thing. I hope Android will soon offer the same option.