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ExcellentPastries t1_ixhj58q wrote

Part of Facebook’s product is presumably to have a concept of identity that stretches beyond whether or not you’re a user of their site. People’s identity can essentially be hashed out of some combination of their name, birthdate, and probably one or two other combinations of distinct qualities, and then marketing data for that person is then stored according to that hash. This is how they preserve anonymity, in theory.

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