On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 11:46:16 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 8/11/17 11:29 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 05:37:16 -0700 (PDT), John H
wrote:

On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 6:38:51 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
I've had a Facebook page since 2009 that I use occasionally to touch
base with family and friends. Recently however, I started getting
notifications on my cell phone about things and people I have never had
contact with. I don't even have the Facebook App on my cell phone.

I checked all my settings on Facebook and all the notifications are
turned off. I have tried to keep access to friends and family only.

Then I discovered that somehow I also have an "Advertising Account". It
has my email address but it's something I never signed up for or even
knew about. If you use it, it charges $$ to a credit card or something.

Anyway, that was enough. Found the appropriate page and deleted my
Facebook account completely. It's getting too wacky and too
"collective" in terms of information on you.

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Haven't noticed anything like that.

The only strange thing I have seen was when I bought something on Ebay
and the next day an ad from a relative for that exact item showed up
in Mr Ed's timeline. He didn't have a clue and I am pretty sure Ed was
not shopping on Ebay. They had to have sniffed a cookie on my machine
when Ed was on Facebook.


Time to burn that computer and everything in the room it is
in...damn...a cookie...the horror of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKcAYMb5uk4

The issue is that they forged an ad from someone on the friend list,
based on a cookie they found on the computer.
Since I delete cookies after the session I must have still had the
facebook session going when I did that Ebay transaction. I have been
careful not to do anything else when I am in facebook and I have not
seen anything like it since.
I am surprised that you think this corporation has the right to snoop
on it's customers for profit. I thought corporate profits were evil.

BTW talking about privacy, have you seen the reports coming from NSA
leakers that the reason they do not really have the smoking gun on the
russian hacks of the DNC is they think it was really an inside job.
There may have been a hack but disgruntled DNC people may have leaked
some if not all of the Emails.
Considering how "leaky" the whole political process has become, I bet
the truth is somewhere in the middle.