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Everyone sells your information to advertising companies.

That's just a fact of life in today's ad-supported world. Facebook isn't unique in that sense and everybody's privacy policy clearly says so if you actually read it. Even Trisphee used to, in a sense; we ran ads. The advertiser was able to collect information about things you were interested in, and we got money for it in return.

It isn't even that big of a privacy problem. There are contracts and laws in place to prevent that information from being misused. People can and do get in big trouble for poking into the data in ways they're not supposed to. The hysteria being drummed up by the fearmongers is worst-case-scenario pearl clutching that serves to do nothing but scare people for no good reason.

It's understandable that you might not like it. I'm not saying you're wrong for being unsettled by it. That's completely legitimate. But that's the kind of business deals that keep web services free to use. Let's face it: even a $1/month subscription would be enough of a barrier to entry to keep people out.