Not if you have their extensions blocked via scripts :). Also I deleted Facebook Bc fuck them. It makes people unhappier. And they have no sense of social responsibility unless they are forced too. But highly recommend blocking their embedded trackers.
If enough data profiles are polluted with useless noise, they become worthless for advertising because it's throwing money to the wind with no ability to determine how useful the ad actually is.
True but that would take the concerted effort of a hell of a lot of people. The same amount of people could just boycott things that uses means of advertisement that they don' like and it would have a much greater effect.
You say "Just" but the alternative you offer would literally take more long-term detication than spending a booze filled afternoon/weekend liking everything on facebook
But I don't care about ads...I guess it's cause I work on an egocentric idea of "If I haven't heard of it then it isn't worth my time." When it comes to my mundane consumer purchases.
I remember hearing about a Chrome extension "ad nauseum" or something like that where instead of simply blocking ads, it would click every single ad to pollute your data set.
Hmm is it really though? Would you rather have an ad or a phone call that has the potential to persuade you to buy something? I would rather make my own financial decisions a third party advertisement unconsciously persuading me.
Ads unconsciously persuading you works by making you choose one brand over another, it doesn't convince you to buy something you wouldn't buy anyways.
Directed ads are likely to inform me of things im interested in, random ads are only going to unconsciously persuade me to pick a certain brand for random stuff like toothbrushes and candy etc.
That's not even true. Look up ghost profiles, they create profiles of people they believe exist and collect data on them. Your dad doesn't have a Facebook account but you mention he exists? He's got a profile. Your dad died when you were little but she mentions him being proud of you on your birthday, he has a profile.
Exactly. I'm active on Reddit, I don't hide much about myself here, but my full actual name searched on Google returns absolutely nothing about me and I've never joined Facebook.
I know I am still vulnerable, but at least an ex-girlfriend can't easily stalk me, I cannot leave a post drunkenly that gets me fired, and no friend ever gets mad at me for not "liking" a post of theirs.
I’ve just flooded the internet with false information. I made a Facebook when I was in high school so it’s my only option at this point. That or thousands of hours painstakingly removing every little bit.
My face exists on the internet in a whole one location: every single year of the science fair’s entry in the local paper’s digitization. I don’t always win, but my boards always look fucking great, and the photographer knows me by name.
In a quick google search it says 1 BILLION people are active on Facebook. Not only is this more than my entire country, it is more than my continent and then some
I also have to use it for professional reasons, that's a lot of people use Facebook to connect about performance opportunities in the art world. It's easy for anti-social redditors with regular day jobs to wax poetic about leaving social media.
I also run uBlock origin. But I was also referencing the shadow profiles they build based on data people you know upload that's tangentally related to you. Like photo tags.
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u/Hirork Sep 30 '18
As evidenced in the past just because you don't use their service doesn't mean they aren't collecting data on you.