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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by wuliwong on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @03:48PM (#16539737)
I was thinking the same thing. Also not claiming to have any real idea of as to what they are actually doing but certainly having access to everyone's phone gives them a ton of distributed computing power for free.
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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by StanislavPetrov on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @05:04PM (#16540372)
>I was thinking the same thing. Also not claiming to have any real idea of as to what they are actually doing but certainly having access to everyone's phone gives them a ton of distributed computing power for free.

Only if by "everyone" you mean people foolish and vapid enough to use Facebook and give them access to your phone.

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