{"id":253123,"date":"2018-03-22T12:52:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T10:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=253123"},"modified":"2018-03-22T12:55:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T10:55:39","slug":"mozilla-pauses-advertising-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/253123-mozilla-pauses-advertising-on-facebook.html","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla pauses advertising on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/21\/mozilla-presses-pause-facebook-advertising\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0it will not spend money on advertising through Facebook for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla said the news\u00a0of Facebook user data being collected by Cambridge University professor\u00a0Aleksandr Kogan caused it to take a closer look at Facebook&#8217;s current default privacy settings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we believe there is still more to learn, we found that its current default settings leave access open to a lot of data &#8211; particularly with respect to settings for third-party apps,&#8221; said Mozilla.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, it will pause its Facebook advertising.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are encouraged that Mark Zuckerberg has promised to improve the privacy settings and make them more protective,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/252923-how-facebook-made-its-data-breach-worse.html\">How Facebook made its data breach worse<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla will not spend money on advertising through Facebook for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":195102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49571,49569,161,981,1767,975],"class_list":["post-253123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-aleksandr-kogan","tag-cambridge-analytica","tag-facebook","tag-firefox","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253155,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253123\/revisions\/253155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}