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John Oliver Set Up a Guide to Make Your Data Less Valuable to Mark Zuckerberg (gizmodo.com)
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[–] BlemboTheThird 15 points 1 month ago

I very much doubt that makes literally even the smallest difference. The problem is that Facebook isn't selling your data--as in, not specifically yours. They sell everyone's data. And the companies which buy that data aren't going out and looking for anyone who's licenced their data under whatever license, either. They buy a gigantic pile of data from Facebook and whatever parts of it are yours are gonna be in there either way.