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Re:The Fight to Mine Your Data and Sell It to Your Boss by tjoff on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @06:27PM (#15709018)
And yet they can't show even a semi-related ad if their entire existence counted on it.

They have the data, yes. But they will ruin society before having any idea on how to use it.

Most importantly. They can not correlate that with my IP or my browsing history. So that information is beyond useless when trying to track me and only slightly useful for researching the society in which I grew up (which facebook isn't interested in anyway).

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Re:The Fight to Mine Your Data and Sell It to Your Boss by improbable22 on Thursday November 16, 2017 @06:08AM (#15711771)
This is also true. I don't see how they're making money off their extensive knowledge about me.

When I make the mistake of buying something online in a browser logged into facebook, then I get adds for a week trying to sell me what I just bought... this does not lead to me buying another one! And all this strategy seems to need is basic cookies, not a shadow profile.

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