Lol @ the Facebook army astro-turfing the comment section.
"But it's not nefarious..."
"But everybody else is doing it too..."
"It's not for surveillance, profiling and shadow profiling, pinky promise, trust us..."
"But it's not nefarious..."
"But everybody else is doing it too..."
"It's not for surveillance, profiling and shadow profiling, pinky promise, trust us..."
It's a lot easier to get one company (or person) to stop a practice only they do than it is to get them to stop doing something that everyone else does too.
Facebook has ties to and influence over government, it is so big and far reaching that I feel it's right to be more concerned about FB doing something like this than other smaller players.
The scale of FB is what makes it a special case.
However, I think that the proper approach to something like this is educating users. Companies are gonna capture your mouse movements, it's not something we should legislate over, but users should be informed as to what it means to give companies like Facebook information about yourself.
Worrying about mouse movements when you freely send clear text messages to their data pile about your most intimate feelings and thoughts is ass-backwards.
Going after the largest offenders and making a big splash is more effective than doing nothing until you can get every company to simultaneously stop something.
No. Not only does facebook not get cover from "everyone else is doing it," they are actively perpetuating that cover existing for others. They are one of a few entities with the weight to set "industry standard" simply by changing their practices.
>while you can get up in arms about it, you need to get up in arms about the practice industry-wide
I am.
It's also an efficient way to distinguish people from machines. Think about the click-only reCaptcha for example.
Would you change mouse each time you change browser tabs, keeping a mouse for Facebook and a mouse for other websites?
Also, keep in mind mouse tracking is just another technique deployed to identify you. It's not supposed to be a silver bullet.
I absolutely not believe that. for real. this is something i keep reading but a seriously not see how mouse movement can be unique from one person to another. it's not a fingerprint come on.
> It's also an efficient way to distinguish people from machines.
well that i can believe, but not more