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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 PiMuNu on Thursday September 03 2020, @11:59AM (1 child)
> Government? if they make it so people have to have an FB account to access public services and data they will get sued.
A bit off topic (google not fb) but ... just for your interest, turn on umatrix or firefox lightning plugin and then see how many government websites deploy google analytics. It is many in the UK, including for example NHS.
(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Thursday September 03 2020, @10:05PM
Actually very off topic, and totally irrelevant. The OP was talking about a FB membership being required to do things, not about being being passively tracked by Google (an issue unto itself). I've used .gov websites with google analytics blocked without any issues.
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