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This is why I simply maintain my own FB profile but portray my interests so poorly it’ll never be of any value to Facebook advertisers. It works, too, the ads

This is why I simply maintain my own FB profile but portray my interests so poorly it’ll never be of any value to Facebook advertisers. It works, too, the ads I get are so wildly irrelevant it’s comical.

zwkrt 5y ago
That’s naive. If you have a Facebook account they know every website you go to that has affiliate advertisement or a like button on it. I’m sure they also broker data from other companies and mine it from public sources. My uninformed guess is that < 10% of the data Facebook has on any given person comes from their actual interaction with Facebook.com.
- fsflover 5y ago
  Unless you are using Facebook containers in Firefox, or even self-destructing VMs to access it (as I do).
  - greenyoda 5y ago
    Or just use an ad-blocker extension like uBlock Origin, which blocks Facebook's trackers (and Google's, and others).