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What's your point? Facebook still won't know what websites you visit on your PC. It also doesn't have geolocation access there unless you explicitly grant it.

• walrus01 9y ago
  That the targeted advertising and profiling will still come to you. Live with a person who joins fb mommy groups and buys diapers online? Prepare for a barrage of relevant ads. The main point is that the combination of relationship-inference and geolocation can undo probably 70% of your own privacy protection measures, through ignorant ordinary use of the fb app by friends, family and coworkers. Then combine that with fb facial recognition profiling from photos third parties may upload...
  • dao- 9y ago
    Sure, they will still track you as best as they can (though as I said Facebook doesn't have geolocation access on desktop). This doesn't change the fact that without your browsing profile, Facebook will have less knowledge about you than it would normally have, period. Facebook can't "undo" that.
    • addicted 9y ago
      I think that was the OP’s point. FB woule have geolocation information on you because thanks to someone else’s use of your WiFi network on their cellphone, FB can now associate your IP address with a geographical location. So even though you’re on desktop and haven’t provided them with location permissions, they can still identify your location based on your IP address.
      • dao- 9y ago
        Ah, okay. I still don't see how this would undo preventing Facebook from knowing what websites you visit. The location of your PC seems like an entirely separate data point.
    • cpeterso 9y ago
      Facebook can use GeoIP on their servers to position you within a few miles. That's close enough for demographic profiling. And like others mentioned, if anyone uses the Facebook app on your home network, Facebook can link the devices precise position with your IP address.
  • icc97 9y ago
    Putting in my year of birth to 1911 (but the same month/day so half friends don't send me wishes on the wrong day) used to mostly destroy their targeted advertising. It was all adverts for arthritis medication. They're steadily figuring it out, but it's taken them about 10 years.
    • dao- 9y ago
      I'm also enjoying completely meaningless ads as I lie to them about my gender.