Please understandnim asking this question from a genuine place. I dont want the quora answer, i want the tech savvy, security expert minds of my fellow lemmings. If thats ok?

What happens to this data? What can/do they do with it? and why are so many people concerned about google tracking them?

Do i as an average user need to be concerned?

If so, What sorts of things can i do to avoid being tracked? Preferably without too much comprimise.

  • @foggy
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    351 year ago

    If your friends have Facebook, and they share contacts on their phone, and they communicate with you Facebook has a shadow profile for your phone number. They still track you even without the app or an account.

    • TrenchcoatFullOfBats
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      171 year ago

      Joke’s on Facebook, all my friends are either Amish or live in anarcho-syndicalist communes

      (Rumspringa can be a problem tho)

      • @Adulated_Aspersion
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        31 year ago

        You’re fooling yourself. We’re living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes…

    • snownyte
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      18 months ago

      You’re not even safe from deleting your account.

      You delete your account, come back with a new one to find that the suggested people are people you once had as friends or looked at.

      Gee, wonder how they know that? /s

    • @tpihkal
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      11 year ago

      The only Facebook I use is a telephone book!