Ina report from USA Today, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak told reporters that he is leaving Facebook over privacy concerns. "Users provide every detail of their life to Facebook and ... Facebook makes a lot of advertising money off this," he said in an email to USA TODAY. "The profits are all based on the user’s info, but the users get none of the profits back."
Can't blame him, and I'm honestly surprised it took people so long to get the hint. Wozniak summed it up nicely to Usa Today, stating:
"Apple makes its money off of good products, not off of you," Wozniak said. "As they say, with Facebook, you are the product."
"I was surprised to see how many categories for ads and how many advertisers I had to get rid of, one at a time. I did not feel that this is what people want done to them," he said. "Ads and spam are bad things these days and there are no controls over them. Or transparency."
Can't blame him, and I'm honestly surprised it took people so long to get the hint. Wozniak summed it up nicely to Usa Today, stating:
"Apple makes its money off of good products, not off of you," Wozniak said. "As they say, with Facebook, you are the product."
"I was surprised to see how many categories for ads and how many advertisers I had to get rid of, one at a time. I did not feel that this is what people want done to them," he said. "Ads and spam are bad things these days and there are no controls over them. Or transparency."