I'm all for privacy, but I'm also all for facts and reason, and some of this comments are getting incendiary.

> facebook is performing one big MITM

Is it a MITM attack if you choose to use that platform? That's like saying Uber is kidnapping, because you're in someone else's car. The whole point of MITM is you don't know there's a MITM.

> shameless siphoning

Accurate.

> selling all information to nefarious bidders

The data by CA was not sold, it was stolen. Facebook sells targeted ads.