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Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by hueving on Thursday December 29, 2016 @08:54PM (#13281928)
>Facebook isn't doing the collection

Who is it then that allows facebook like buttons and social widgets to be integrated into other sites?

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Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by nxc18 on Thursday December 29, 2016 @09:51PM (#13282143)
Facebook does that data collection, but not the data that the article discusses - no social widget is responsible for figuring out your income or what you do at physical retailers.
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Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by ghughes on Thursday December 29, 2016 @11:54PM (#13282612)
> no social widget is responsible for figuring out your income

That is actually an intended purpose of many social widgets.

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