[mattkevan]

Hmm, a clear history feature that does nothing of the sort. Sounds like Facebook!

The product manager in charge said: “people were able to mentally connect that with how their browser controls work, where they can clear their history. We clearly state that … the information isn’t connected to your account.” [0]

So, they deliberately designed it to make people think it works like a browser's clear history feature (which does delete everything), but instead, it 'disconnects' the data (but doesn't delete anything).

Such a bunch of weasels.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/20/facebook-...

[gaogao]

That's why it's not called clear history anymore...

[flattone]

propose the original comment was more about the behavior of Facebook being mechanized both at interface and internal product culture to be anti traditional Western/free thinking human from the bleeding edge of our ever emerging attention capital economy.

[downandout]

And? Ads will no longer be targeted to that user with this information. You've identified a distinction without a difference.

[yalogin]

Great point. I did find the selection of words odd. They said "will not be connected to your account" and not "deleted". I wonder if it's because they have no way to stop the collection of such data as any of my connections could be pushing that data to facebook.

[yumraj]

> Such a bunch of weasels

I think it's more like a very big weasel and his cult-followers.