Amusingly, an alleged employee of Facebook here challenged me to find a single example of Facebook selling private information, and this seems to be the clearest example so far.
My challenge stands. There is no indication that Facebook made a cent off of this bug, nor that any advertiser was aware of the fact that a small percentage of ad clicks contained a user id.
"Alleged" employee? My name is Keith Adams, and here's an entry I posted to the Facebook engineering blog this week:
Your challenge does not stand. It gets weaker every day.
There is a reason why Facebook is more appealing than other advertising venues. They offer more personal information. Facebook is smart enough to use a redirect cloaker for other content, why didn't they do it for ads? The reason is quite clear to me.
And yes alleged. Your comments and profile offered no proof of your employment so I was careful to represent that in my statement. Do you find anything wrong with that?
Amusingly, an alleged employee of Facebook here challenged me to find a single example of Facebook selling private information, and this seems to be the clearest example so far.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1312016