Agree, Apple had the least incentive to monetize your data. Amazon will use your data to sell stuff, but they probably not going to share that to others. Google and FB are all advertising companies that they relies on reselling your data for targeting, with FB being the more aggressive one for you know, growth.
Neither FB nor Google "resell" your data. They use your data to put you into categories. Advertisers choose which categories to advertise to, and if your data puts you into one of those chosen categories then you're shown the ad.
You will be amazed how flexible they allow advertiser to specify the criteria, and how easy that with a handful filters they can target as niche as tens of people in the same area as a cohort.
I'd suggest you turn of all the personalization ads option they provided so that you can avoid to be precisely targeted
3+ years ago, their Graph API provided much more information than it does today. App developers (CA, in this case) used that open API to get information about the app user's friends, and then stored that data on their own servers (which is and always was against Facebook's Terms of Service).
>>>(which is and always was against Facebook's Terms of Service)
Nobody reads TOS.
Car analogy: leaving you car in a bad neighborhood, unlocked, key in the ignition, door open, with a "do not steal or we will send you a threatening letter demanding our car back" note.
To the GP's point, the fact that Facebook has stated recently that it will reduce the information provided to third party apps shows that there was still a bigger leak than it cared to admit all along.
That doesn't make sense. By your reasoning, Google is reselling your location data by allowing Android apps to access it after getting your permission.
Apple makes it pretty clear that they don't use the data that hits a server to identify you:
> When we do send information to a server, we protect your privacy by using anonymized rotating identifiers so that searches and locations can’t be traced to you personally.
A much more nuanced and detailed explanation of what I was trying to share. Thanks for that. Wordsmithing isn't my strong suit. Your wording is exactly my sentiment, and better stated.
That's the right order though I am not sure about the last two. I once listened to a Microsoft exec give a talk on privacy issues regarding Bing, etc. He admitted that for privacy conscious folks Apple was best followed by MS, followed by Google, then FB. He described how there were intense fights within Microsoft regarding whether they should show targeted ads based on email content on Hotmail and the side that wanted to show targeted ads lost out. A large part of the reason was that even though it was a free service, any hint that MS was contemplating going through emails could mean a backlash from giant corporate customers using MS's email products. For Apple, leveraging data has never been a major aim. They do as much as possible locally unlike Google/Amazon which do as much as possible on the cloud. Again, differing cultures of companies born in different eras.