There's a difference between selling user data and using user data to target ads to specific user groups.<p>It's not like I get an Excel file with user data if I advertise on FB. All I can do is use FB's interface to select interests, age or an array of other information to target my ads.<p>The ones selling user data are Equifax and friends.
Most of the free apps on the App Store or Google Play, are probably selling your data left and right.<p>The little "My Digital Life" app (that just happened to exploited a bug in Facebook's platform at the time) is probably a drop in the pond. Who knows what other apps there are that's not even connected with Facebook that have been selling for all these years and are probably still doing so today?
> In the wake of Facebook’s privacy debacle, Myspace Tom has emerged as an unlikely hero.<p>What? Why? They all sold data, they all still do. It's fucking Silicon Valleys Business Model to sell their users' data!<p>What the fuck is going on, why do people behave like they are on the Internet for the first time. We all know this. We all knew this - for years.<p>You've got to be completely oblivious of any facts to still think any player in the modern web is any good or intents to do act good.<p>I can't wait for IPFS and Ethereum to ripe. Those two things combined will create the truly decentralized web and all those big, data selling, companies can fuck off.