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Timon3 5 hours ago

> Come on, you're trying to tell me that people didn't understand that when they give someone a thing, that someone has the thing they gave them?

This is a bad faith argument, because Facebook collects far, far more than "the thing they gave them".

jolmg 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It's true they collect more, but I wouldn't say "far, far more". They get the most from what you provide yourself. That's unless you have relationships that share too much about you.

Timon3 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Did they stop tracking people through their like buttons by now? If not, there's no argument - they're literally tracking non-users on every site they can! Besides Google, what company is doing as much tracking as much as Facebook?

Wasn't it just last year that it became known how Facebook and Instagram apps track your browsing through WebRTC? That alone is far far more than people knowingly give them.

jolmg 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Learning about their tracking web browsing through WebRTC ports from the apps, you have a point on users not knowingly providing that. Still, if you dissociate from Facebook (not having their apps, not being logged on, etc.) then that tracking would've been ineffective. The rest of my comment stands on their being able to leave it.

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