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Facebook Pilot Links User Profiles with Online News Subscriptions

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday September 03 2020, @07:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-see-what-you're-doing-there dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

Facebook pilot links user profiles with online news subscriptions:

It works like this: When Facebook identifies that a user subscribes to a participating publisher, it will invite the user to link their subscription account. Once the accounts are connected, if the user clicks on a paywalled link via Facebook, they won't have to sign-in to access the content. Users who link their Facebook and news accounts will also see more stories from those publishers in Facebook News.

Facebook is testing the feature with a handful of publishers, ranging from The Atlantic to the Winnipeg Free Press, and early test results are promising. In June, subscribers who linked their Facebook accounts made 111 percent more article clicks compared to those who didn't link their accounts, Facebook said in a blog post.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Thursday September 03 2020, @09:48AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 03 2020, @09:48AM (#1045789) Journal

    It is becoming almost impossible to function in society without a FB account.

    Really? I don't think so.

    Hobby forums I am on move to FB Groups, meaning you can't post (or sometimes even view) content without a FB account

    In my case, I'm still happy: eevblog forum is in place [eevblog.com] and society didn't collapse.
    Rex Kruger keeps on figuring out [youtube.com] and the society didn't collapse.
    And heaps of others.

    People buying/selling stuff on FB marketplace, rather than Ebay/gumtree/etc... requiring a FB account

    Plenty of others remains on ebay, gumtree, etc...

    Dating apps requiring a FB account in order to sign up

    Don't need those. Never needed them anyway.

    My local coffee delivery van only communicating via FB

    Time to learn a new skill, then. Like brewing a Turkish coffee [youtube.com] - their loss, your gain.

    Online shopping offering to "link your account" with FB, so you can log in with your FB account to shop

    Which you can refuse.

    Local government encouraging you to "follow" them on FB, for the latest news/updates and information, requiring a FB account

    The last two at least still have the option of refusing to use FB, but for how much longer will that be the case?

    The same news you can get from their sire by request - a govt cannot offer the information exclusively on FB.

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