I Have Cancer. Now My Facebook Feed Is Full of ‘Alternative Care’ Ads

Re:I Have Cancer. Now My Facebook Feed Is Full of ‘Alternati... by js8 on Sunday July 12, 2020 @08:55PM (#23816064)

Somebody always owns something, that's capitalism. But I would argue that Whatsapp works differently than FB, it's really just a communication tool, it doesn't manipulate you through a "feed".

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Re:I Have Cancer. Now My Facebook Feed Is Full of ‘Alternati... by belltaco on Sunday July 12, 2020 @09:43PM (#23816377)

And what's to say Facebook isn't harvesting all the phone numbers, contacts and the social graph and feeding it into FB and FB's ads? Especially since Whatsapp does not seem to be monetized in any way.

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Re:I Have Cancer. Now My Facebook Feed Is Full of ‘Alternati... by AnonC on Monday July 13, 2020 @12:27AM (#23817158)

There’s no need to speculate on this. WhatsApp officially declared some years ago that it will share communication metadata with Facebook. So even though the message content (being E2E encrypted) isn’t shared with Facebook, everything else about one’s messages is.

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