[throwaway_234]

If you are not str8 and not out about your proclivities Facebook, Google, ATT, etc will out you indirectly (your friend, parent or partner needs to be smart though).

Example you have a bi or gay app on your phone.. you visit such websites, etc ... Facebook, Google, etc will start showing you ads geared towards things bi or gay people like. Now say you share your phone or your TV service with someone who doesn't know your proclivities and they are smart ... they will see the ads your being served are a lot of ads geared towards bi or gay people. Though on their phone and on their TV service they aren't seeing such ads. YouTube TV and ATT TV Now are the worst ... watching TV with your family members or partner or whoever and bam they are running such ads and all in the room watching too can see.

Im open about my proclivities, but many are not and FB, Google, etc have no business invading users' privacy & potentially ruining user's lives for their piggy bank. You will see old guys on Facebook complaining .. why am I seeing this disgusting ad ... ummm, the guy is looking at gay and bi content that is why, yet never came to terms with it nor ever could. Though that's his business and these companies have no right to invade our privacy like this!

[dralley]

Somehow Facebook managed to do to this to me despite having no FB-owned apps on my phone, using Firefox with the Facebook Container addon, and not having exposed that information on Facebook directly or through group membership or search history.

Unless they're reading my facebook messenger messages, I have no clue how they would have discerned that piece of information.

[AnonC]

> Unless they're reading my facebook messenger messages, I have no clue how they would have discerned that piece of information.

Facebook Messenger is not end to end encrypted, unlike WhatsApp (which is, but shares metadata with Facebook). Of course it’s reading your messenger messages as much as it’s reading posts on Facebook to see what the content is about and how to use it to build a better profile of you to show you and your contacts more “relevant ads”.

Consider Facebook Messenger like a private closed group on Facebook. Just the interface and conversation models are different.

[bhhaskin]

They do read your facebook messenger messages.

[dralley]

Then they can go fuck themselves.

[paul7986]

They should be sued for this too!

[harry8]

Fb track you all over the internet. Not just on Facebook.

Did you sign up for that. Did you provide informed consent for it or did you not?

[dralley]

That's what Facebook Container extension is for.

[harry8]

Yes you have to treat facebook as hostile malware. This is the only way and it isn't close to being fully effective.

The question was did you sign up for this? Did you give informed consent for this or did you not?