[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?