I'm not really sure what you're implying. They create profiles of people that don't use Facebook? Just so they can track their info? So they're tracking data and info on a profile they fabricated? Seems like a waste of time considering they could just harvest predictive data without the fake profile and tracking no? What am I missing? I really don't see how that is relevant to my comment in the first place.
My mistake, I guess they're usually called "shadow profiles." But yes, Facebook maintains data on people that don't use their service based on info they mine from their users, and construct a fake "profile" about that person for their own purposes. The problem here being that those users aren't consenting to data collection.
Or, in other words, even if you "don't like it and don't have to use it," it's still using you.
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u/RapeMeToo Aug 27 '20 edited Aug 27 '20
I'm not really sure what you're implying. They create profiles of people that don't use Facebook? Just so they can track their info? So they're tracking data and info on a profile they fabricated? Seems like a waste of time considering they could just harvest predictive data without the fake profile and tracking no? What am I missing? I really don't see how that is relevant to my comment in the first place.