But the point of this post is to highlight that when you aren't on facebook, they are still collecting information about you and saving it to your profile. All those "Share" buttons are really cross site miners that mine your data on other websites. Share buttons are just about everywhere. Also anyone who advertises on Facebook needs to install "Pixel" in order to measure the effectiveness of that advertisement. It's basically tracking you everywhere.
I'd you are still on Facebook, you are a stupid asshole.
But the point of this post is to highlight that when you aren't on facebook, they are still collecting information about you and saving it to your profile. All those "Share" buttons are really cross site miners that mine your data on other websites. Share buttons are just about everywhere. Also anyone who advertises on Facebook needs to install "Pixel" in order to measure the effectiveness of that advertisement. It's basically tracking you everywhere.
So it's not just "stay off facebook"
They still collect info on you even if you NEVER had a FB account as long as you visited a page that has their FB icon & coding embedded.
and they purchase data from other sources as well