Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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It's worth noting that Facebook regularly collects information and builds profiles about people who are not users (or are users who but aren't logged in). The average user would be surprised what a company like Facebook can put together on individuals who have never made an account.
https://www.howtogeek.com/768652/what-are-facebook-shadow-profiles-and-should-you-be-worried/
I’ve been fairly parsimonious with my information for a fair while - I don’t use my real name online except when unavoidable for payment etc, don’t put photos of me anywhere, use social media (other than Lemmy, and I’m not very social on here really!) and I think I have fairly good habits to keep information and habits separated. I alternate between using FF, Librewolf and Mullvad browser for different things, don’t reuse usernames/id’s, use a VPN router at home and have VPNs on my mobile devices, email masks and relays, and where possible pay with virtual cards etc. I think my most unique identifier, last time I checked with the EFF site, was the size and resolution of my screens. I’m not really sure how much data there is to collect about me past the mundane, as I don’t really associate with anyone in the real world online, and almost exclusively use signal in the real world.
regardless of what measures you set up, they'll still be able to collect a bunch of data based on what pages you visit their service, which posts do you spend more time looking at and which you scroll past, and so on.
I figure that if I can keep it pretty isolated, they’ll only get “scrolls marketplace in SE uk” out of it - I’m never going to look at the feed or have “friends”.
You can’t use Facebook privately. There’s no such thing.