Tuesday 20 March 2018
After a stormy couple of months, lots of people seem to be fed up with Facebook. The self-explanatory hashtag #deletefacebook is all over Twitter, another company that makes it money primarily by selling your data. Not here to judge though, just to inform. There could be one thing users who opt to make this bold move might be forgetting: Facebook also tracks non-users. In 2016, the Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook would start serving users and non-users ‘interest-based ads’, gathered from cookies downloaded on third party websites. This means that if you’d visit a website about extreme ironing, advertisers…
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