Facebook says Signal never intended to run the ads—Signal denies that. So, when Facebook says it would let the ads run without data that violates its policies, it’s believable. After the public spat with Signal, Facebook pointed me to its tweets to clarify this exact position. The entire digital marketing industry and all those ad trackers feed the very same invaluable machine run by Facebook and Google and others. Now, the impetus to delete Facebook or to severely cut down the data that’s collected and the tracking that takes place has never been more critical.

Source: Forbes May 09, 2021 15:30 UTC