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The good news is that you can always just stop giving Facebook information about you. I have largely stopped using Facebook a couple of years ago, though I join

The good news is that you can always just stop giving Facebook information about you. I have largely stopped using Facebook a couple of years ago, though I joined in 2004. I use text, email, phone to communicate. I don't really have any urge to sign in and view my feed, the most interesting stuff I find on HN and Reddit. If there is something truly important about a friend, I'll hear about it whether or not I use Facebook. In general, the less I use Facebook the more focused and productive I am. Thats just me though, I have plenty of friends signing in on a daily basis and consuming the newsfeed like popcorn.

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millstone 12y ago
Even if you never visit Facebook, you still provide it with information about you. Most of the links you visit from reddit or HN have an embedded Facebook Like button, which gives Facebook information about the sites you visit. FB uses that information to target ads to you. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/13/facebook-web-app-tracking-for-ads/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/13/facebook-...
- mgreg 12y ago
  True. There are lots of tools to block that, however, on the desktop anyway: 1. AdBlock Edge (or Plus, but Edge doesn't have loopholes): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ 2. Disconnect: https://disconnect.me/disconnect https://disconnect.me/disconnect 3. Ghostery: https://www.ghostery.com/en/ https://www.ghostery.com/en/ And I'm sure others….