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Better Buy: Facebook vs. Alphabet's Google -- The Motley Fool

Google crafts targeted ads based on users' search or location histories, but Facebook leverages users' social connections to create ads. Google's attempts to counter Facebook's growth with its own social platforms all flopped, but it remains an internet powerhouse. Company FY 2014 Annual Revenue Growth FY 2015 Annual Revenue Growth FY 2016 Annual Revenue Growth FY 2017 Annual Revenue Growth Facebook 58% 44% 54% 47% Alphabet 19% 14% 20% 23%Wall Street expects this trend to continue, with Facebook's revenue rising 40% this year as Alphabet's revenues climb 23%. The better buy: FacebookI think Facebook and Alphabet are both solid stocks, but I think the former will keep outperforming the latter for the foreseeable future. Facebook owns multiple market-dominating social platforms, and it has better sales growth, higher margins, and a lower P/E ratio than Alphabet.

Better Buy: Facebook vs. Alphabet's Google -- The Motley Fool

Facebook and Google use 'dark patterns' around privacy settings, report says

let alone It studied the privacy settings of the firms and found a series of "dark patterns", including intrusive default settings and misleading wording. Both Google and Facebook said user privacy was important to them. The report concluded that users are often given the illusion of control through their privacy settings, when they are not getting it. We have made our policies clearer, our privacy settings easier to find and introduced better tools for people to access, download, and delete their information." It complained that people were not being given a free choice when it came to choosing new privacy settings.





Better Buy: Facebook vs. Alphabet's Google -- The Motley Fool

Google crafts targeted ads based on users' search or location histories, but Facebook leverages users' social connections to create ads. Google's attempts to counter Facebook's growth with its own social platforms all flopped, but it remains an internet powerhouse. Company FY 2014 Annual Revenue Growth FY 2015 Annual Revenue Growth FY 2016 Annual Revenue Growth FY 2017 Annual Revenue Growth Facebook 58% 44% 54% 47% Alphabet 19% 14% 20% 23%Wall Street expects this trend to continue, with Facebook's revenue rising 40% this year as Alphabet's revenues climb 23%. The better buy: FacebookI think Facebook and Alphabet are both solid stocks, but I think the former will keep outperforming the latter for the foreseeable future. Facebook owns multiple market-dominating social platforms, and it has better sales growth, higher margins, and a lower P/E ratio than Alphabet.

Better Buy: Facebook vs. Alphabet's Google -- The Motley Fool

As it stated in It studied the privacy settings of the firms and found a series of "dark patterns", including intrusive default settings and misleading wording. Both Google and Facebook said user privacy was important to them. The report concluded that users are often given the illusion of control through their privacy settings, when they are not getting it. We have made our policies clearer, our privacy settings easier to find and introduced better tools for people to access, download, and delete their information." It complained that people were not being given a free choice when it came to choosing new privacy settings.

Facebook and Google use 'dark patterns' around privacy settings, report says





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