Facebook Uses 2FA Contact Info for Targeted Ads

[Guest]

Researchers discovered that Facebook lets advertise target people based on the phone numbers they use for 2FA and contact information shared by other users.

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[derekullo]

Facebook also monitors and tracks a user's soul and assigns each soul a SOULid.

This is different from the id assigned to the physical body, the PBODYid.

The benefits of SOULid include;

1. The ability to continue track a user after the brain has been transplanted into another body (Do note that a new PBODYid will be generated)

2. The ability to track a user into the afterlife (an "Angel" gave clearance for this)

3. A SOULid never expires and by definition is impossible to erase.


Suddenly "Facebook Uses 2FA Contact Info for Targeted Ads" feels less invasive.

 

[rantoc]

If someone who cares about their privacy and still uses facebook are shocked at this, it might be a great time for a psych eval!

 

[termathor]

"By now everyone should understand the company's business model"

Well, it's been years everyone with half a brain could have understood:
- burning electricity/cooling + buying shittons of systems to run a free service doesn't constiture a valid business model (at least not one which is not goinf into the wall)
- as a consequence, something has to be put in the revenue column, and apart from users private data + advertising, there's really nothing else in sight

Then, every time some smart ars is discovering something fishy/scandalous (Cambridge-Analytica, this, the next thing with medical record or bank account access, etc ...), the folks are happily moving in damage control mode, et voila.
You have your business model !

I really need to be more cynical in order to just do that and become a billionaire !

 

[g-unit1111]

And websites wonder why we won't give up our ad blockers. You can have my ad blocker when you pry it from my cold, dead browser.

 

[g-unit1111]

Then, every time some smart ars is discovering something fishy/scandalous (Cambridge-Analytica, this, the next thing with medical record or bank account access, etc ...), the folks are happily moving in damage control mode, et voila.
You have your business model !

I really need to be more cynical in order to just do that and become a billionaire !

Yup, they're not in it to protect your privacy, they're in it to sell your data for profit. Reminds me of a Simpsons quote when Krusty tells Bart "Hey kid, it ain't comedy that's in my veins, it's selling out.".