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"Hard Questions: What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why?" Is this a hard question because Facebook does not know the answer, or it knows the answer and it does not want to tell you?
When does Facebook get data about people from other websites and apps?
Many websites and apps use Facebook services to make their content and ads more engaging and relevant. These services include:
Social plugins, such as our Like and Share buttons, which make other sites more social and help you share content on Facebook;
Facebook Login, which lets you use your Facebook account to log into another website or app;
Facebook Analytics, which helps websites and apps better understand how people use their services; and
Facebook ads and measurement tools, which enable websites and apps to show ads from Facebook advertisers, to run their own ads on Facebook or elsewhere, and to understand the effectiveness of their ads.
And this all important line....
When you visit a site or app that uses our services, we receive information even if you’re logged out or don’t have a Facebook account.
Once we saw some of the overhead associated with Facebook and Twitter buttons that we used to have here on HardOCP, we decided to strip that out and move away from it for the simple fact that we did not know exactly what was happening with that code. Just for the record, the "buttons" on our pages are just hardcoded links to our social media accounts. Thanks cageymaru.
When does Facebook get data about people from other websites and apps?
Many websites and apps use Facebook services to make their content and ads more engaging and relevant. These services include:
Social plugins, such as our Like and Share buttons, which make other sites more social and help you share content on Facebook;
Facebook Login, which lets you use your Facebook account to log into another website or app;
Facebook Analytics, which helps websites and apps better understand how people use their services; and
Facebook ads and measurement tools, which enable websites and apps to show ads from Facebook advertisers, to run their own ads on Facebook or elsewhere, and to understand the effectiveness of their ads.
And this all important line....
When you visit a site or app that uses our services, we receive information even if you’re logged out or don’t have a Facebook account.
Once we saw some of the overhead associated with Facebook and Twitter buttons that we used to have here on HardOCP, we decided to strip that out and move away from it for the simple fact that we did not know exactly what was happening with that code. Just for the record, the "buttons" on our pages are just hardcoded links to our social media accounts. Thanks cageymaru.
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