Beacon Backlash

Facebook's new advertising platform is getting folks all riled up.

Invasion of privacy! Opt-out! User rights! There's a lot of rhetoric flying over the issue of users having their info from third-party sites appear on Facebook.

Editorial note: Whoa! You've found a super-old post here on BuzzFeed, from an earlier era of the site. It doesn't really represent where we are anymore, and may in fact be totally broken, but we're leaving it up as a part of our early history.

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