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by Tichy 5421 days ago
Of course they do. To the maximum extent they can manage. As the saying goes: if you are using a web service for free, you are not their customer, you are their product (or something like that).
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Paying is irrelevant. How many websites hide the FB buttons if you subscribe to them?
I meant you don't pay for Facebook. Facebook is collecting the data, not the sites who add the Like button.