• Soulifix
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    17111 hours ago

    People should’ve dropped FB back in 2016 or when the Cambridge Analytica happened.

    • @[email protected]
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      24 hours ago

      It would be easier if they didn’t buy other products I already used. I hate that shit so much. I wish companies were all banned from buying other companies. A company should be one thing, not own all the things. It’s hard to choose who you do business with in our country because of this. Even if we all drop these apps today and move to something else they will try to buy that too.

    • Sabata
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      86 hours ago

      People should have deleted it as soon as their parents figured out how to make an account.

    • @[email protected]
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      5011 hours ago

      It was that combined with the fact that they create shadow profiles for your unborn child when your wife is pregnant. (Found out through FB being allowed to track your browsing history even off the app). That was the final straw right after the Cambridge Analytica issue.

      • @[email protected]
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        136 hours ago

        Wait what the bloody fuck? I haven’t heard anything about this. Sounds right up their alley, but what evidence is it based on?

        • @[email protected]
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          54 hours ago

          If you look up the practical application of Shadow profiles they have the ability to gather information about non-users, which also includes unborn children in the case of them discovering that the mother is pregnant through whatever web searches that they may be doing even outside of Facebook. The whole science of Shadow profiles used to strengthen the algorithm is incredibly frightening and part of the reason why I left Facebook.

        • ditty
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          45 hours ago

          I hadn’t heard of this either but here’s an article about Facebook keeping shadow profiles on non-users that references an article from 2012 where Target’s data collection determined a teen girl was pregnant before she told her dad

    • @[email protected]
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      49 hours ago

      I don’t remember exactly when I did but it was around then. Sooo much happier honestly.

    • @[email protected]
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      18 hours ago

      Stayed with FB despite Cambridge because Portal TV.

      I’ll still maintain an account because Portal TV.

      It’s a gorgeous product done wrong by meta and in need of a cloning.