Facebook Is Gaslighting Users into Allowing Ad Tracking on iOS 14
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It must really hurt their tracking. I didn't expect that, after all the app already knows who you are considering you have to log into it. I assumed they would have plenty of ways to correlate activity on other websites and apps. The linking of the ID to other apps must give them a lot of info, much more than I expected.
That means it's a really good thing. I hope Android will soon offer the same option.
For anyone unfamiliar with the term: As an example, gaslighting is when Alice and Bob had an argument. Alice slaps Bob in the face. Then, three weeks later, Bob goes back to Alice and asks "why did you slap me during that fight" and Alice would go "That never happened, Bob. You slapped me. Are you insane?" Thus making Bob question his memory and sanity by insisting on a false narrative.
What Facebook is doing is simply trying to lure people, it doesn't mean they are trying to question their sanity.
To the author: I would rather just see the actual popup instead of inflammatory language.
Doubly inventive!
And how is Facebook telling you exactly what they use the tracking for "gaslighting"?
Basic summary trawl someone’s social media. Get a small handful of their least common interests. Run an ad that only hits a dozen or so people in even a metropolitan area.
This is something that is cheap enough that private investigators and legal firms looking for dirt on a target will do so.
Further, refusing to hear an argument because it has a term you don’t like is much more about you than it is the other people.
Are you, uh, entirely certain about that?
But, hey, if you want to exclude arguments because of one "modern" trigger word, I doubt anyone will stand in your way.
I think we've reached the point where people should push back on invalid usage; I see somebody just posted the following to Hacker News: https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/hermeneutical...
It is not gaslighting when someone contradicts you, or intentionally causes you to doubt your beliefs, or leaves you uncertain of what you believe, or even makes you think that they think you are crazy. Gaslighting is about someone lying to you in a way that causes you to lose trust in your own capabilities as a rational person: your ability to reason, your competence to figure out the truth, your capacity to remember things in a broadly accurate fashion even if you are sometimes fuzzy on details, your knowledge of your own feelings and thoughts and desires. And if your mind is unreliable… well, you’ll have to rely on someone else.