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Posted on December 5th, 2007

Despite my confident laying of odds, Mark Zuckerberg has announced in a blog post that Facebook now is enabling us to opt out of the Beacon advertising system entirely.

That’s not perfect. It’s still not opt in. And info about your activity on third party sites is still being passed around, unencrypted; if you opt out FB ignores the info, but it’s still sent to them. Nevertheless, the announced change is enough to collect on that 100:1 bet I made.

Fortunately, I neglected to mention any stakes. Whew!

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I was wrong about Facebook! Yay! Posted on December 5th, 2007 Despite my confident laying of odds, Mark Zuckerberg has announced in a blog post that Facebook now is enabling us to opt out of the Beacon advertising system entirely. That’s not perfect. It’s still not opt in. And info about your activity on third party sites is still being passed around, unencrypted; if you opt out FB ignores the info, but it’s still sent to them. Nevertheless, the announced change is enough to collect on that 100:1 bet I made. Fortunately, I neglected to mention any stakes. Whew! [Tags: facebook privacy marketing ] Tagged with: digital rights • marketing Previous: « Erica George on LJ \|\| Next: Stories the Boston Globe cares about that I don’t » 6 Responses to “I was wrong about Facebook! Yay!” alan p, on December 6th, 2007 at 7:20 pm Said: UK tradition is a beer ;) http://broadstuff.com/archives.....drink.html 无缝钢管, on December 21st, 2007 at 3:34 am Said: dddddddddddddddddddddddd texas holdem board game, on May 22nd, 2008 at 5:03 am Said: jeu de poker online gratuites… Dear no download video poker free 7 card stud poker online video poker strip poker download free on line poker… 杭州装饰, on October 11th, 2008 at 10:56 am Said: good 杭州装饰公司, on October 11th, 2008 at 10:57 am Said: ok Mark Zuckerberg Listens and Responds to Beacon Crisis \| PR2.0, on March 21st, 2009 at 3:23 am Said: [...] Strategy Lab, JD on EP, Digital Destiny, Webomatica, Global Neighbourhoods, The Praized Blog, Joho the Blog, Scobleizer, [...] Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (required) Website Notify me of followup comments via e-mail	Web Joho only Entries (RSS) Comments (RSS).
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