{"id":62423,"date":"2018-03-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2018\/03\/22\/mozilla-presses-pause-facebook-advertising\/"},"modified":"2021-02-09T05:35:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T05:35:39","slug":"mozilla-presses-pause-facebook-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/news\/mozilla-presses-pause-facebook-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla is pressing pause on our Facebook advertising. Facebook knows a great deal about their two billion users \u2014 perhaps more intimate information than any other company does. They know everything we click and like on their site, and know who our closest friends and relationships are. Because of its scale, Facebook has become one of the most convenient platforms to reach an audience for all companies and developers, whether a multibillion corporation or a not-for-profit. <\/p>\n<p>We understand that Facebook took steps to limit developer access to friends\u2019 data beginning in 2014. This was after Facebook started its relationship with Cambridge University Professor Aleksandr Kogan, whose decision to share data he collected from Facebook with Cambridge Analytica is currently in the news. This news caused us to take a closer look at Facebook\u2019s current default privacy settings given that we support the platform with our advertising dollars.  While we believe there is still more to learn, we found that its <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/20\/mozilla-statement-petition-facebook-cambridge-analytica\/https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/20\/mozilla-statement-petition-facebook-cambridge-analytica\/\">current default settings leave access open to a lot of data<\/a> &#8211; particularly with respect to settings for third party apps. <\/p>\n<p>We are encouraged that Mark Zuckerberg has promised to improve the privacy settings and make them more protective.  When Facebook takes stronger action in how it shares customer data, specifically strengthening its default privacy settings for third party apps, we\u2019ll consider returning.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to Facebook instituting some of the things that Zuckerberg promised today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla is pressing pause on our Facebook advertising. Facebook knows a great deal about their two billion users \u2014 perhaps more intimate information than any other company does. They know everything we click and like on their site, and know who our closest friends and relationships are. Because of its scale, Facebook has become one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":20843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463312],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/news\/mozilla-presses-pause-facebook-advertising\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" 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