Re:Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for a...
by ComputerGuru on Thursday February 07, 2019 @01:43AM
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I’ve never set foot in Arizona but I have Maserati of Scottsdale, too. I’m guessing some idiot working in their ad department doesn’t understand targeted advertising and uploaded a leaked list of emails.
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Re:Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for a...
by cpeterso on Thursday February 07, 2019 @01:57AM
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Me too. I have a facebook@mydomain email address that I only use to log into Facebook and my "advertisers who use a contact list" has all those same car dealerships (and no other advertisers). There must be one company that paid Facebook for email addresses and then resold them to auto dealerships.
Re:Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for a...
by nitrogen on Thursday February 07, 2019 @03:47AM
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It could be some third party ad firm trying to generate "lookalike" audiences. They could run some algorithm on their random email lists based on known customers, then upload the resulting list to Facebook.