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Even if you've never used Facebook, you have a "shadow" account, it is a well known fact. Every time somebody you know upload their contacts into FB, they link

Even if you've never used Facebook, you have a "shadow" account, it is a well known fact. Every time somebody you know upload their contacts into FB, they link them with your shadow account, or create it if not already there, as a strong possible match. I have started to use Facebook recently as I needed an account for work so decided to explore a bit, my biggest problem with Facebook is that your "feed" is made up of things that your "friends" liked or posted etc... but in what seems a random order, and not all of them appear. One has to wonder what kind of weighting they apply to each post to decide if it will make it to your feed or not. Twitter has brought something similar recently, but at least you can disable it and get a sane timeline - Just tweeted about this today (check my profile for account).

ino 9y ago
They also use those means to know your face to scan photos and ask people connected to that contact list to tag you in photos, so they know where you've been, even match them with events. They can fill your shadow profile with photos, location and time data. It's frightening.
joncrane 9y ago
You can change the sort to most recent first, but the setting isn't sticky and the next day, it's back to the echo chamber, er, I mean, FB curated content.
- dorfsmay 9y ago
  When you set it as most recent then it switches to a very short timeline, and, again incomplete (judging from what you see as default). Indeed, curated content, which is very scary.
ballenf 9y ago
FB should keep a hash of details on people who have deleted their profile and opted out of tracking in order to prevent re-creating shadow profiles.
alecco 9y ago
The only way is to blur your analytics. Move out of Google/Facebook. Install Ad Nauseam extension to not just block tracking but click on everything in the background. This will ruin the information they gather about you with noise. https://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/

ino 9y ago

They also use those means to know your face to scan photos and ask people connected to that contact list to tag you in photos, so they know where you've been, even match them with events. They can fill your shadow profile with photos, location and time data. It's frightening.

joncrane 9y ago

You can change the sort to most recent first, but the setting isn't sticky and the next day, it's back to the echo chamber, er, I mean, FB curated content.

dorfsmay 9y ago
When you set it as most recent then it switches to a very short timeline, and, again incomplete (judging from what you see as default). Indeed, curated content, which is very scary.

ballenf 9y ago

FB should keep a hash of details on people who have deleted their profile and opted out of tracking in order to prevent re-creating shadow profiles.

alecco 9y ago

The only way is to blur your analytics. Move out of Google/Facebook. Install Ad Nauseam extension to not just block tracking but click on everything in the background. This will ruin the information they gather about you with noise. https://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/