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|    Re: Facebook data mining, was: A questio    |
|    21 Aug 21 23:06:34    |
      From: snidely.too@gmail.com              Just this Saturday, Michael Trew puzzled about:       > 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"              Doesn't matter. You're still tracked.              /dps              --       "Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself       is a good thing to do, You may be a fool but you're the fool in       charge." -- Carl Reiner              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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