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That is a good start but unfortunately my understanding is that they will still have a data profile on you specifically.

This is a problem for us all and we need regulation to solve it. And we probably need campaign finance reform to get people in power willing to regulate it.

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Exactly, if your kid has an account, and she identified her mom, facebook will think her mom is your wife if at the same address. Those connections start to add up, add in they copied linkedin, your phone address books, email accounts, etc.

To me, the answer is noise.

Generate so much false data about yourself that you both overwhelm and devalue this mechanism entirely.

Cause an infinite loop CPU explodes by making data that leads to you being your own grandfather.

I try to do this and it _seems_ to be working okay. Facebook has not given me a correct/interesting recommendation in ages and google thinks I'm a different age and various other things that are not true when I look at their collected information.

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