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> They are choosing to give Facebook info.

Yes, they do. That's is exactly the phenomena my comment addressed.

But the way you wrote that implies an improbable motivation or choice framing.

Perhaps their real motive/choice is to share with other people on the site.

It is called a network effect.

If (1) Facebook had been the surveillance/manipulation capital of the world from inception, (2) an equally inviting privacy protecting site took off at the same time, and (3) everyone chose Facebook over E2EE anyway, then sure, we could throw up our hands! Those silly users!

The term I have for when people discuss choices involving many-dimensional criteria, as if the choice involved just one or two selected dimensions, is "dimension blindness". It happens in a lot of heated discussions about phone choices too.

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Wouldn’t the most obvious way for people to protect their privacy while using FB if they cared and still wanted to use FB be not to proactively give them information? You don’t have to share everything I mentioned just to be involved in a group.
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> You don’t have to share everything I mentioned just to be involved in a group.

This is clearly true. There is an implied point here but I am not sure what.

They share in their profile what they want other people to see. And often choose to not fill out everything. Nobody signs up to share with Meta, Inc.

Most people would love a "[ ] Do not share with Facebook".

People choosing an imperfect option, from imperfect options, are not demonstrating evidence they don't care about the imperfections.

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They are explicitly adding their information to FB why do they need a button to not share the information? Would the button disable them from checking in and updating their profile?
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An E2EE system (e.g. as offered by Apple iCloud). Or a terms of service guarantee. (e.g. Dropbox, Anthropic and 1000 other companies that partition sharable user content from non-support divisions.)

> Would the button disable them from checking in and updating their profile?

No.

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