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   Pierre Jelenc to snidely.too@gmail.com   
   Re: Facebook data mining, was: A questio   
   22 Aug 21 17:46:51   
   
   From: rcpj@panix.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Snidely   wrote:   
   >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.   
      
   Only if you --foolishly-- do not block all scripts from FB and their   
   minions.   
      
   Pierre   
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