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Re:Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What ... by sasasassy on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @11:59AM (#20393119)
But.. they do, though. You can (and people do) make a very targeted ad, then query what users matched with it, and so on until you've sufficient data for your purposes. Plus you can use their public APIs to then match their ad data with the users public information. Facebook knows this, and does not prevent it (by hiding user identifiers for instance) because it's part of their strategy.
Re:Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What ... by Voxoff on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:59PM (#20393945)
Ah now this is sneaky. Is this widespread? Any sources?
Re:Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What ... by ambicapter on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @03:02PM (#20395411)
Re:Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What ... by scarejunba on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:52PM (#20394654)
By making a Custom Audience and then selectively uploading? I think you have to agree to not do this.

The audience size tricks like uploading an audience, then adding one to it and reuploading won’t work. There’s a cardinality fudging thing.