I am aware that they use the data I put in in form of friends, posts, etc to inform ML models. And it makes sense that they don’t deliver those when I download

I am aware that they use the data I put in in form of friends, posts, etc to inform ML models. And it makes sense that they don’t deliver those when I download my data! Frankly I would argue that the ML models they create from usage data are theirs! Regardless of how useful they would be to me as a individual to download or not. Now about the FB tracking pixels and the data they collect, I consented to those when I used the third parties websites they were in and accepted their TOS...and I have a choice to not use those sites or if I choose to block the pixel from firing via technical methods. FB tracking pixels are on less then .1% of all websites...so I also don’t buy that arguments that Facebook follows anyone around, because it’s simply not true! Update: so I was curious to see how this actually works and looked up the documentation: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-pixel/events-advanced-use-cases/v2.12 https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-pixel/events-a... So there is two ways to do it for third parties: get user consent before starting to use the website or use their advanced API and delay firing of the pixels until users have consentent later in the process...like for example on the checkout page!