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No, not even close. Facebook doesn't need you to have an account to gather information on you. It's an ad network tracking what you browse everywhere on the web via cookies. It also know who you are via your accounts with other sites and agreement to share. So if your email address is connected to your friends contacts it know you connections before you even have an account.

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Facebook won’t make coin without a delivery method for the ads. Stop using their products and they will suffer greatly.

They also get data from apps compiled with the FB libs. No account needed.

That's why I use NetGuard (Android app) as a personal firewall on mobile and block facebook on home router etc.

what are FB libraries?

I dont have the FaceBook app on my fresh Android phone. There's still the com.facebook.katakana service running, which I explicitly blocked via NetGuard. But they are still the tracking pixels and cookies remaining, via all the webpages with their Like button integration, and Google/Mozilla conspired to block browser extensions to disable those.

Ok sure, but thats secondary info.

All that they can get for sure is that you know someone.

That's way more limited compared to all of your thoughts likes dislikes beliefs location family members pets, etc that people share when logged in.

My point is that we complain about Facebook stealing our data but then log in to Facebook and freely give it to them.

Instead of waiting for the govt or some big regulatory entity to slap Facebook we can do it ourselves and just delete Facebook.

Why do you think people don't just do that?

Because FB provides them with (what they perceive to be) value.

I deleted FB, Insta and Twitter, and lost nothing. My life got better.

SAME. Those sites provided me with negative value.

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