Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are deactivated

Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by thehappypm on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:02PM (#29818181)

So let’s say you run an e-commerce site. Someone adds a bunch of stuff to their cart. You want to remember this so that when they come back their cart is still filled in. Is that a “phantom account”?

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Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by throwaway946513 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:32AM (#29824794)

That's generally done with browser cookies. But not such a phantom account. Nowhere near the same.

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Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by thehappypm on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:26PM (#29828596)

So let’s say the company wants to save the cart, the user’s favorites, and their search preferences so when they come back it’s still there. A cookie isn’t a database. So they store that info in a DB using the cookie id as the index. Is that a phantom account? You’ve got rows in a DB for a user who never signed up.

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Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by throwaway946513 on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:44AM (#29840415)

Generally when you want to save favorites, most, as far as I've used, storefronts require that you create an account before allowing those functions.

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Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by thehappypm on Friday January 07, 2022 @03:50PM (#29844623)

You can book a hotel room as a guest on many hotel sites

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Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by boardwaalk on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:10PM (#29818247)

No. What are you getting at? Better to not be deliberately obscure about it.

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