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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.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday September 03 2020, @02:26PM (2 children)
Facebook also discriminates against older people who are going colour blind - their colour scheme makes certain icons invisible.
But in the end, you don't NEED Facebook or Google. And those who don't require it deserve your business.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Unixnut on Thursday September 03 2020, @04:01PM (1 child)
> And you don't complain?
No, I just use others, coffee is pretty fungible.
My concern is not the present day, but the future. Most of what I described happened in 12 months. For the moment there are alternatives, but for how much longer? It is already getting harder to avoid the great data suck online, and at some point most businesses will not bother with the 5% of so people who refuse by choice to not be on these platforms.
I don't intend to join these platforms, but every day it becomes the much easier choice, which I guess is what I want.
Government is fine, as they don't require it (and I doubt they ever will), like you say, they have a duty to be accessible to all, including people without internet. Banking I am not sure about. They don't have the same regulations on accesibility, and are prevented right now on the security nightmare it would be to do so, but everything else is fair game. Including savings and investment accounts, one of which staring requiring me to use Googles ReCaptcha to access my savings, which caused a mini ruckus between us.
It is a large time and energy sink having to fight it more and more, and it just feels like a losing battle. We shall see what the future holds, but it seems to only get worse with each passing year.
(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Friday September 04 2020, @05:31AM
Very true, but it also makes you part of the problem.
If you stop being a regular at a business because they require a FB account you should let them know that their choice cost them a customer. Send a letter, or have a word with a manager. And be sure to remind them that complaints are like cockroaches, for every complaint they see there are 100s they don't.
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