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|    Michael Trew to danny burstein    |
|    Re: Facebook data mining, was: A questio    |
|    21 Aug 21 23:46:03    |
      From: michael.trew@att.net              On 8/21/2021 10:05 PM, danny burstein wrote:       > [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.              I've seen those, but I sure as hell won't "log in using Facebook"              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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