{"id":12302,"date":"2015-09-18T17:21:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T21:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12302"},"modified":"2015-09-18T17:21:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T21:21:40","slug":"facebook-like-button-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/facebook-like-button-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook &ldquo;Like&rdquo; Button Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/199975\/facebook-tracking-like-buttons-for-ads\/\">Kashmir Hill<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kashhill\/status\/644934349989613568\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/199975\/facebook-tracking-like-buttons-for-ads\/\">\n<p>Four years ago, Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/facebook-denies-cookie-tracking-allegations\/\">promised<\/a> that the &ldquo;Like&rdquo; buttons that had sprung up on non-Facebook sites all around the web wouldn&rsquo;t be used to track users. In 2011, Facebook said, &ldquo;No information we receive when you see social plugins is used to target ads; we delete or anonymize this information within 90 days, and we never sell your information.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/541351\/facebooks-like-buttons-will-soon-track-your-web-browsing-to-target-ads\/\">Now<\/a>, every time you visit a site or use an app that has a Facebook &ldquo;Like&rdquo; or &ldquo;Share&rdquo; button, data about your visit will be captured and fed into Facebook&rsquo;s advertising algorithm, <em>even if you don&rsquo;t actually click on the buttons. <\/em>Millions of sites use Facebook&rsquo;s off-site buttons, including many popular news sites, e-commerce sites, and, yes, adult entertainment sites.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kashmir Hill (tweet): Four years ago, Facebook promised that the &ldquo;Like&rdquo; buttons that had sprung up on non-Facebook sites all around the web wouldn&rsquo;t be used to track users. In 2011, Facebook said, &ldquo;No information we receive when you see social plugins is used to target ads; we delete or anonymize this information within 90 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[354,25,355,96],"class_list":["post-12302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-advertising","tag-facebook","tag-privacy","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12303,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions\/12303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}