What I find hilarious is that besides this being like the 4th or 5th time Facebook got caught with this sort of tracking [1], and each time claiming it's "only a bug" - which it also did when it got caught in Belgium this spring [2] - it now comes and says "Wait a minute! We've been using this umm...bug...for 5 years! We will appeal the ruling! We want to keep using that...umm, bug." [3]
> The company is “working to minimize any disruption to people’s access to Facebook in Belgium,” she said.
Is that a threat? Why would there be a disruption? The ruling only affects their tracking of non-users. Disruption to the non-users?!
Also, you know how they've also been saying for years that they would never (ever!) use Like button tracking (which is just a - pretty damn persistent - bug when tracking non-users, anyway) for advertising? Yeah, another lie [4].
Thanks for the links! OgleFace not only has our best brains working on getting people to click more ads, said brains are also whirring furiously justifying why OgleFace has gone off the charts on the scale of 0 to creepy. Sad..
"Best brain", that's a very narrow definition. Best in what exactly ? Crunching some numbers ? Doing nice css ? I guess those brains are sub standard when it comes to ethics...