Facebook could be tracking your online Plan B or HIV test purchases

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Facebook could be tracking your online Plan B or HIV test purchases
popsci.com

Twelve of the largest drug stores in the U.S. sent shoppers’ sensitive health information to Facebook or other platforms.

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I use it to sell things, but that's literally it. Legitimately the only things it's good for at this point. And every time I go on there I'm reminded of how terrible it is. Actually nauseating.

Ah yea. There’s a marketplace but why not eBay? Swappa, offer up etc? Much better than FB?

Possibly, I don't use alternatives much (primarily because I don't sell much in general). I prefer Facebook because so many people are there and it's easier to facilitate cash payments via meetups. But there could be better ones, I'm not all that familiar with Swappa or OfferUp.

Facebook is great for local sales. Ebay, not so much.

I was trying to buy a car and tried facebook, but it kept showing me people selling cars for $1234 and from imaginary made up locations. I think they were chop shops.

I do ebay too but it's a lot less work to sell local on marketplace so I don't have to risk a bad rating because I took too long finding a box / packing / having issues with USPS not picking up packages etc. I only do porch pickup on FB so I can just step outside and get cash. It's especially great when I'm selling larger things too like PCs, servers, or UPSes which can be ~50lbs to several hundred lbs. I won't ship PCs or even spinning hard drives let alone anything larger like a server.