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Re:Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Cont... by fosco on Thursday September 27, 2018 @12:21PM (#18085963)
I deleted facebook in 2008, this article discusses shadow profiles.... I suspect that more people deleting facebook and moving to facebook owned subsidiaries, or anything that is centrally owned and not federated will not solve the problem. even then there will be new mining techniques with their own set of challenges.

unfortunately I do not think that more people doing that will solve the root of the problem... only try to treat a symptom.

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Re:Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Cont... by starbugs on Thursday September 27, 2018 @12:54PM (#18086335)
It will be a part of the solution even if it won't solve the problem on its own.

If enough people decide to turn their backs on FB (or any other company doing things like this), there will be a market for better solutions.

It needs time.

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