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What’s so wrong with them monetizing you? You are getting some benefit. As long as said monetization is privacy-preserving IMHO it’s ok.

Spamming likes and what not to disrupt your profile might be great for your own privacy but isn’t stopping them from monetizing you at all.

That bit doesn't bother me so much. Its the way the data is used to influence elections and Zuckerbergs attitude that annoy me.

Check out this book:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/obfuscation

Full of obfuscation tactics like that.

I've been doing that for a while. Also hiding every single suggested post to the extent that Facebook occasionally blocks me for "abusing" that feature.