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by sapski 2486 days ago
Your feeling is correct. It's been shown by researchers (incl. me) and confirmed by Facebook that they're doing that: https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to...
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I’ve confirmed this same type of behavior in several of Google’s products as well, as part of an experiment a couple friends and I ran a several months back, using fake personas, to see how feasible it’d be for one to simply exist w/o creating a digital footprint (let’s just say that our overall conclusions left me feeling very sad).