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I removed my phone number from Facebook when it was reported that Facebook used this as some sort of tracking mechanism across third party vendors - specificall
by xyst 6y ago
I removed my phone number from Facebook when it was reported that Facebook used this as some sort of tracking mechanism across third party vendors - specifically with purchases from merchants - in order to serve more "relevant ads". From what I recall, if the merchant is somehow hooked up into FB APIs then regardless of whether you signed up for their rewards program using an e-mail + password or via FB SSO, then they would send back "anonymized" data back to FB for each purchase(s).
I wonder if my phone number still persists (aka "soft delete")
- bartread 6y agoWhen did you remove your phone number? Looks like this relates to a vulnerability that was patched in 2019. I'm slightly concerned about this myself. I'm also seriously ticked off with Zuckerberg and co. I can tolerate the fact that internally they do scumbaggy things with my data. I tend to have less forbearance when they let my data out into the wild.