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		DarkCrusader2 on March 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Faceb... But what are they going to do with this information if they can't show us ads based on them. Collect and target all you want, I am not seeing any ads. If 60-80% users does this, what will be the point of collecting data anymore.

malikNF on March 21, 2018 [–]

They can sell the data to a 3rd party. This 3rd party can be an unethical company that doesn't care about undermining democracy.

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