Comment on Break privacy to make privacy? Age verification isn’t the answer
brillotti@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I heard Facebook has been lobbying for age verification in order to solve the problem of serving ads to real people, as there’s too many bot traffic online to make good profits from ads nowadays.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
I also read that Facebook has been lobbying for (OS-level) age verification, but not for this reason…
If that were the reason, why don’t they just force their users to verify their identities? They could always do that as far as I’m concerned, that doesn’t need to affect any other platforms.
taco@anarchist.nexus 2 days ago
Probably realize that a non-trivial percentage of their userbase values not verifying their identity to facebook than they value being on facebook. They’d rather someone else be the bad guy, if they can do it while still reaping the benefits.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2 days ago
They track everyone who visits a site that has a “share on Facebook” button, so they want this info for way more people than are visiting their actual sites.