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The option to walk away if you don't like it is an illusion. Facebook and Google can get an incredible amount of data on you just by tracking your friends. Comm
by svachalek 5y ago
The option to walk away if you don't like it is an illusion. Facebook and Google can get an incredible amount of data on you just by tracking your friends. Communications logs, location data, calendar information, and more. The mere existence of the model also funds the continued development of mass surveillance capabilities. I don't see the will to make it happen, anywhere, but the only way out of the current situation is total abolition.
- blooalien 5y ago> … just by tracking your friends. They also track and profile you across the web. Even if you have no account with them, you still get assigned an advertising ID. Everywhere you see a "Share on Facebook" button? Yeah, that button tracks you even if you never click it, and that's just one of zillions of sneaky ways you're still tracked and profiled by the modern advertising industry.