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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Might as well just hire someone to stalk you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's why I deleted my actual Facebook account, it really did give me the impression that the company was Cyberstalking me. They knew stuff I did not tell them or put down anywhere in any of the data forms they gave me to fill out. I didn't upload any pictures, I barely did much of anything, yet somehow they seemed to know everything about me anyway.

I eventually made a new "account" a few years later and left it completely blank and filled out nothing but my name... and yet they still guessed quite a few things correctly, including who I knew in real life. So damn creepy. I only use that new account for log in synchronization for games and apps that don't have any other means of access. I wish I could get rid of it too, but it's a necessary evil for certain edge cases.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You should look up "Facebook shadow profiles". Amidst all the Cambridge analytica hearings, Zuck admitted to collecting data of people NOT on Facebook. There's stuff goin back to 2011 that shows they've been doing since at least then.

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