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Comment by notspanishflu

Facebook tracks everyone, every time. Tracks users and non users. Tracks even people trying to avoid that company.

For example, the infamous pixel code.

  <!-- Facebook Pixel Code -->
			<script>
			!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?
			n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;
			n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;
			t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,
			document,'script','https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js');
			fbq('init', '477623695968553' );			fbq('track', 'PageView');

			</script>
			<noscript><img height="1" width="1" style="display:none"
			src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=477623695968553&ev=PageView&noscript=1"
			/></noscript>
			<!-- DO NOT MODIFY -->
			<!-- End Facebook Pixel Code -->

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