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Truth is, people largely don't care about being tracked or being served ads Don't care or don't understand? If "pay by privacy" was opt in only, I suspect there would be a lot fewer participants. A lot of people just don't understand how their privacy is being abused --- out of sight, out of mind.
Don't care. Facebook has an advertising profile for me? Big whoop, all they want to do with it is show me mores ads while I argue with my uncle online. I'm free to step away from the keyboard at any time. If I see an ad on Instagram and buy the product, yeah it's kind of annoying that the advertising worked but it's not like it's a scam. I get the product I bought, that I didn't know existed before the ad. If I didn'…
You really have no way to know this do you?
A political consulting firm got full access to 87 million Facebook accounts. Are you sure no money changed hands in the process?
Every time you click on a Facebook ad, Facebook sells data on you to another company.
I wouldn't bet that they are just ignoring such an obvious opportunity --- even though they may describe it as sharing data with their "affiliates" --- aka, anyone willing to pay the right price.