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FLOSS Weekly 713: "Let's Put Thoughts on the Blockchain" - LastPass Databreach, Linux Desktop 2023, Blockchain

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Is Facebook and Google Using Your Online Activities to Sell Ads?

The Irish Republic, the privacy guards there have fined Facebook one of the four hundred million dollars and forbid them from using your online activities sell ads. Some interpret it as a complete reversal; they're basically telling everybody you can't track people and then use that to sell advertising. Google has a gigantic back end that is the plumbing for much of the advertising FICO system that is tracking based. But even from the outside, all you have to do is go to Facebook and try to buy an ad based on a 66 year old men in Petaluma who have recently browsed stories about women's underwear and boom, I show up.

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