wrangler5 wrote:
It's my impression that FB evaluates, analyzes, cross-references, etc., EVERY bit of information it gets about EVERY person they can get it on. Including, for example, names (and any other information they can glean) of non-FB members who show up on contact lists of FB members. All of this data is stored, permanently, and sold to advertisers and anybody else who will pay for it.
Possibly. But I don't post a lot of stuff.
I purposely ignore any "things you may like" Which is based on liking posts that my friends like or share.
I must drive their analysis algorithm crazy as I never click on what FB suggests.
It's not only FB, mostly all do it. It's called viewing metrics. I looked at things at Lowes, Home Depot, Staples, ... and "suggestions" show up in various places, mostly FB of those exact items. What the Algo can't know, it that I already bought an item, so it keeps "reminding" me about it for about a week.
Your ISP also knows EVERYWHERE you go as all requests for web pages go through them.
WAY you cannot be part of any information gathering is to NOT use the internet.