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No that's being pushed back on the idea from people with tech skills who work in the cyber security industries. You don't think they would realize if something like this was happening and shout it from the rooftops?
It's everyone's favorite past time to dunk on Facebook but that doesn't mean we should make stuff up without evidence. Calling people naive because they don't believe you is the same as saying it's true because you want it to be.
Evidence must be presented. I've never seen any not in the 10 years these claims have been made. No one has ever bothered to provide a shred of evidence and all of it is who I talked about X and then I saw an ad for X.
Pardon me for wanting something a little bit more concrete
Sure thing... Just install Facebook Messenger on your phone and don't pay attention to all of the permissions it needs that are completely unrelated to communicating with people in a messaging app. It is literal malware.
Nope. Too many people are just trying to collect a paycheck. This is testable without access to the backend or source code and too many sociopaths work in the industry. My default is to distrust anything when the other party has a profit motive to lie. It's anti-skeptical, but you have to prove that they aren't spying on me if you want me to trust something.
Okay so address my fundamental point which is show me the evidence because otherwise you're living in exciting reality of your own creation. I am positive it is very fun in there, but it doesn't have much to do with here on Earth
Come leave here on the other side of the reality curtain we have donuts.