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That’s the point though-they don’t need you to scroll to make money off you. You only need a registered account, and they can track a massive amount about what you do online and then serve you ads across millions of sites and mobile apps. All of this happens off of Facebook owned properties.

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Except for those who block third party trackers, which is something like 25% of desktop users and 15% of mobile users.

Companies like Google or even Mozilla can easily ruin or at least make it harder for social networks to track you and your interests with their browsers. You already have "block thirdparties" checkbox and similar restrictions, soon you will be provided with builtin ad-blocking. Sounds bad for all social networks and tracking services.

So Google has everything in his pocket, but if FB really has something to put against?

You can have account, but if you don't use it, which means you don't share your user experience, social network can't feed you and your friends with fresh and actual stuff.

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