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A comment on Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absolute no control over it. Parent comment

Re:Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absol... by wolco on Thursday April 11, 2019 @04:12PM (#19638662)
You can't have it both ways. The buzzfeed platform is tracking/collecting. Either the reporter knows this and is ignoring it or is unaware which makes the article seem less creditable.
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Re:Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absol... by kohtatsu on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:31PM (#19639448)
Or they know about it and were unable to enact change before publishing.

Publishing articles with the same poison still raises awareness of the issue, though it would be best for them to disable ads on these articles, or to at least be upfront.

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