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Opting-Out Of Facebook Sponsored Stories May Be On The Way

SocMed Sean

” as a Facebook status update, then Facebook could re-purpose that post and and add this advertisement to any of my friends’ news feeds: Unfortunately, regardless of whether you liked being a pawn in Facebook’s advertising game, there was no way to opt-out of being part of the program. Watch out co-workers!”

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Opting-Out Of Facebook Sponsored Stories May Be On The Way

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Reuters is reporting that a recent proposed settlement offers $10 Million in damages and an agreement to provide an opt-out option for the program. For instance, if I posted “Grabbing my third cup of coffee from Starbucks today. Watch out co-workers!” The case, Angel Fraley et al., 11-cv-1726 , was argued in U.S.

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Will Facebook Always Be Free? Probably Not For Everyone!

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Periodically, someone in my Facebook feed will post a link to a Facebook Page about the “Keep Facebook Free Revolution” or “ Stop Facebook from charging $4/month “ Until this point, these have all be hoaxes that tend to generate a lot of Likes and Shares, because people want Facebook to be free and get irritated when they hear (..)

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