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They also make a great deal of money using people's user data to match them to pages that pay to promote and have their page shown to more people. It's 14 bucks to have a single post "boosted" for a page otherwise your posts will be held at the bottom of the algorithm.
I took a five year break for this reason. As I embraced being an artist it seemed the only way to know what is going on locally in my stupid medium-sized Texas town is Facebook. Even local government news was only on Facebook. So if I wanted to find calls for art locally to submit for galleries then I had to join. Luckily with two fences and uBlock Origin the only information they get is by logging any text I put in. It's a lot of work to try to maintain my privacy though and no official app ever. I use a couple container apps from F-Droid, but they barely work most of the time so it mostly has to be on Desktop. I've tried to get a few friends to switch to federated apps and they look at me the same way. Even my partner's casino job requires a Facebook account because if you want someone to take a shift for you it's the only way. Also any company news. It should be regulated as a utility.
Usually I tell them I have a right to privacy and I won't be using their product and that they need to delete my account and my data.
They already have. I can barely go to a mobile page that isn't broken or doesn't have a pop up I must dismiss telling me it's better in the app when it most certainly is not. Some things I use have let their desktop web pages go into disrepair and when I contact them with my issues logging in they just tell me to use the app and that their site has been down for months. Gotta force that tracking and those arbitration clauses somehow.
Two devices is lunacy.
All the better to track you with so you have no choice but to agree and agree to their arbitration clauses if you want to use their and their competitors' products with no alternative to avoid it. Sometimes you can't even use the mobile site when so many services and businesses have flat out broken their mobile sites just to force the app. I don't like DuckDuckGo's browser but I use it to block trackers in the background.
Gotta love that punishment for keeping your private information, well private.
Undeserved reputation built on actually intelligent people that worked for him.
They've blocked my review on a shower chair that was absolutely not rated for what they said. I nearly fell on my butt and my skinnier partner said it was too wobbly. They've blocked the negative review 5 times saying I questioned the authenticity of the product and they have confirmed it. I knew it was Medline brand. I've had to file a FTC complaint which I expect to be worthless.
I agree and I worry about what options they'll remove from about:config next to make room for or force the acceptance of new features like they have a habit of doing.