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People ARE stupid, this is a known fact; this is one reason why consumer and privacy protection laws are a thing, why two-factor authentication is a thing, why e-mail verification of logins is a thing, why you can't just start trading in stocks, buy alcohol, etc etc etc.

Companies protect their users from themselves; they HAVE to, in case they (the users) shoot themselves in the foot. And consumer have a reasonable expectation, regardless of Facebook's terms & conditions, that their data isn't shared to third parties - or that they at least get asked when it happens, instead of being pointed to a tl;dr of T's & C's.

Plenty of people do not have the literacy level to understand terms and conditions [1]. This is a worrying trend, but it's something that companies like Facebook should (and are) aware of - people don't read terms and conditions, people don't understand them.

[1] https://literacytrust.org.uk/parents-and-families/adult-lite...