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1. Mike, First of His Name (mike@social.chinwag.org)'s status on Sunday, 15-May-2022 05:30:39 UTC Mike, First of His Name

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   • Hugh

   @hugh this wouldn't be services, but people you know who have your actual email address and then give the FB app access to their phone contacts when asked - I'm out of the loop but the app definitely used to do this.

   It'd be pretty simple to find links then if they look at their own userbase and find your contact info in common between two groups, even if you don't actually have a profile yourself.

   No browser trickery needed at all when people hand stuff over.

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   • Hugh (hugh@ausglam.space)'s status on Sunday, 15-May-2022 05:30:47 UTC Hugh

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     @mike doubtful, I use a different email address for nearly every service. My guess is supercookies over time.

   • Mike, First of His Name (mike@social.chinwag.org)'s status on Sunday, 15-May-2022 05:30:48 UTC Mike, First of His Name

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     • Hugh

     @hugh this has got to be 100% down to third parties pushing the "OK, you can look at all my phone contacts" buttons and then them linking email addresses to accounts, right?

   • Hugh (hugh@ausglam.space)'s status on Sunday, 15-May-2022 05:30:49 UTC Hugh

     So here's a thing.

     I have not had a Facebook account for over a decade, nor ever had any Meta Incorporated apps on any of my devices. I also run Privacy Badger on my desktop browsers (though admittedly not on mobile).

     My partner has recently started getting Facebook friend recommendations for my colleagues - the only connection between her and them being through me.

     It's not hard to imagine the sort of dangerous things that can come from this kind of pervasive surveillance marketplace.