The difference is, I didn't give them permission to stalk me, and yet they still are. I am not in plain view, I have adblockers, and do-not-track, I reject cook

The difference is, I didn't give them permission to stalk me, and yet they still are. I am not in plain view, I have adblockers, and do-not-track, I reject cookies from facebook and have never given them my phone number. Yet they know my phone number as someone I know allowed their app to look at their contacts, they keep shadow profiles and they create new domains so they can get around adblockers and cookie rules. They even change their privacy settings just to make it harder to keep up with protecting yourself if you are a customer. Many countries have laws against companies harvesting phone numbers just because someone called them, your browser information isn't really different to that. >90% of the internet DON'T use that business model. It's actually quite a small proportion. They're just all over the place as they make profit from creeping into other businesses and using them as a collection platform. Ad networks need to be reigned in (and yes, that's what FB is).