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Re:Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook User... by aazaa on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:23PM (#28750924)
> And I don't think they had location/address

They most definitely did have addresses.

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Re:Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook User... by pvaldes on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:21PM (#28752227)
This info had a logical purpose also. Phone books without location and address would be mostly useless because lots of people share the same name.

To find the phone number of a friend having just "John Smith, USA" would be impossible (or would annoy thousands of people and require months of calls).

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