This is how Facebook knows where you’ve been and what you bought
www.theverge.com
The data fueling Facebook ad targeting comes from other companies.
  • ShindangAp@lotide.fbxl.net
    33·
    10 months ago

    A good reminder that privacy may only exist now because the sheer volume of information is so large that it provides anonymity through overload.

  • MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 months ago

    Nothing really too weird about that. A countries entire infrastructure is run by millions of people just for each individual to live through society.

    • TheFriar@lemm.ee
      32·
      10 months ago

      Is that not the problem? That there’s “nothing weird” about how highly focused companies are getting about us as people?

    • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
      19·
      10 months ago

      Last time i checked neither my water company, nor my electricity company, nor the supermarkets where i buy food, had followed me around or inquired about more than what was necessary to exchange goods for money.