I’m impressed at how obvious of a lie this is and how hard they’re trying to do mental gymnastics to justify their argument.

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    they don’t sell your data. advertisers just pick out the target audience and meta places the ads for them. This is the way google and meta have been doing ads for a while. Actually selling your data is illegal.

    They still use your data to push ads so it’s a violation of privacy. Just wanna get the facts straight.

    Unless there’s been some leak recently I’m unaware of?

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      They sell to brokers, who then sell to whomever.

      Then also, chrome and firefox have recently gotten the option to track you offline and just pass that info directly to websites.

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        Here some info about how much and what kind of user data is being sold (GPS position,…), and the legality of it all.

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          I don’t need to read some German blog to know that a company with a long history of sketchy behavior is sketchy. They’ve gotten on the news with their behavior plenty of times.