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Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Be... by ansh0l on Saturday February 17, 2018 @12:58AM (#16399298)
I'm curious - if I have a clean browser history(no Facebook login ever), and Facebook still tracks me, how does that information benefit Facebook?

Alternatively, how does it affect me?

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Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Be... by rockinghigh on Saturday February 17, 2018 @01:27AM (#16399371)
Their official stance is that these cookies are used for fraud detection: https://www.facebook.com/notes/alex-stamos/preserving-securi... In theory, Facebook could also sell these ghost profiles to web sites that have the Facebook like button or Facebook comments and want to show personalized ads.
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Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Be... by KanyeBest on Saturday February 17, 2018 @06:33PM (#16403437)
>Alternatively, how does it affect me?

They still record your IP address and link it to all the sites you visit that have a facebook script.

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