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by aylmao 3011 days ago
That's sketchy, but not a MITM since there's no communication to or from a shadow profile. Again, I'm all for privacy and it's unceasing that facebook has profiles of people without their knowledge, but just trying to keep the discourse rational cause I've seen a lot of very sentimental and fearful posts, which lead to an irrational collective discourse, which just leads to chaos and unproductive conversations.
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There are Facebook trackers on nearly every website and they siphon data from your friends & family which you have no control over. Yes, yes, I can and do block things via browser extensions and whatnot, but it's simply not possible to stop them from sucking up a considerable amount of data.
So if I have never joined Facebook, but fb has logged phone calls to me and associated them with my shadow profile - what is that?