DISQUS

Ruslan Abuzant · 2 years ago

Thanks god, someone started the protest i asked for earlier. I though my voice was not heard, WAY TO GO.

daksh · 2 years ago

minor corrections

sent to your firends - sent to your friends
increasingly trasparent - increasingly transparent
be alterted - alerted

;)

Clayton Scott · 2 years ago

That's a little over the top. Beacon gives you at least one if not two opportunities to decline the message.

The first time is on the site hosting beacon and the other is on Facebook itself.

Neil · 2 years ago

Nick - see if you can find any stats on the percentage of online purchases which are intended as gifts. I imagine it's a pretty high percentage, so that's a huge amount of data which Facebook will, by default (if the retail partner permits), pull straight into the Newsfeed. And we're getting ever closer to Christmas, too!

Bar_Code · 2 years ago

A little clarification on how Beacon works. Before any action is published to your Facebook account, you are supposed to get a "window" that slides up from the bottom right corner of your active browser window. This is called toast, since it pops up like toast. At that point you can opt not to publish the action. But, the "toast" apparently doesn't always work (popup blocking?) and so your action gets published without you knowing it or having the option to suppress it.

Charlie Profit · 2 years ago

Maybe in addition to the "opt-out" opportunities, there should be a "Gift" button that reminds the buyer that the Beacon will announce the purchase, and gives the buyer the option to "hide" the Beacon from specific users. Sometimes people don't think ahead of their actions. We are in such a hurry and there are so many "clickable options" that we get "click happy" just to get through the activity.