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|    danny burstein to All    |
|    Facebook data mining, was: A question ab    |
|    22 Aug 21 02:05:10    |
      From: dannyb@panix.com              [snip]              >>>> Facebook does a very good job of tracking you even if you don't use       >>>> Facebook. Amazon is working on getting there, too. Which is one of the       >>>> reasons (according to some articles) they've opened brick-and-mortar       >>>> stores.       >>       >> You can't avoid facebook.       >>              >If you don't have an account and don't go to their website, you still       >can't avoid them? How does that work?              Think of all those websites you're looking at that       have any sort of FB link, ranging from "log in       using yr FB ID" to "like us on FB" to, well, lots       of other stuff that isn't visible...              Each time you go to one of these, FB Is Watching.                     --       _____________________________________________________       Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key        dannyb@panix.com       [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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