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Re:Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for a... by aembleton on Thursday February 07, 2019 @06:45AM (#19104593)
Fascinating. I have loads of US car dealerships such as Land Rover San Antonio, Mini of Freeport and South Motors Infiniti.

I've never been to the US!

This is the same email that I use everywhere, so its easy for them to get and stuff into Facebook, but surely they are then paying to advertise to someone who isn't able to buy from them. Or maybe this is then further filtered based upon geo location.

Maybe, as soon as I land in San Antonio I'd start receiving Land Rover adverts because they've provided my email address. Incredible how many of them are US car dealerships.

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Re:Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for a... by hopler on Thursday February 07, 2019 @08:51AM (#19105166)
Based on commercial te in this thread, clearly these dealerships did something shady or bought a list from someone shady. If Facebook was concerned about user experience and ad quality, they would detect cases like this and block those advertisers.
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