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How do you tag someone that doesn’t use Facebook?
by bcherny 6y ago
How do you tag someone that doesn’t use Facebook?
- ciberado 6y agoThe fb ecosystem is widely used, many times as a third-party library in many apps. Sometimes those apps send your data to facebook, sometimes they do it for free as a consecuence of integrating their services. And then, there are the "share with facebook" and "I like this" buttons. https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-tracking-you-even-if-you-dont-have-account-888699 https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-tracking-you-even-if-you-d...
- bcherny 6y agoGDPR, CCPA, etc. ban this, right? And without a permanent user ID (cookies etc. are super volatile), I’m not sure how valuable this data is.
- Nextgrid 6y agoThe GDPR does ban this however it's not being enforced, as proven by the prevalence of Facebook's malicious SDK in any mainstream app.
- EdwardCoffin 6y agoThey're called shadow profiles. If you do a search for facebook shadow profile you'll find a number of articles that talk about how Facebook infers connections between Facebook users and non-users.
- ce4 6y agoCheck out Facebook Analytics. It's used in many smartphone apps, on websites etc. It is an analytics platform free of charge for the website/app operators (and gives FB a huge insight into non-FB users on the side)