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Its because Facebook can't afford to not show you an ad. So, when no one specific is paying them, you get lowest-common-denominatored.

It would be interesting to collect ad statistics from a broad range of Facebook accounts to see what they do get shown, since it would speak volumes about who's actually paying them.

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That would be an interesting way to turn the tables. We are on their platform so the user data is theirs but we are also on their platform so the ad data is ours. Of course, this would need an app (or plugin or whatever they are called in Facebook-land) and a critical mass of people to install it.

I believe I would reactivate my account just to partake in this. Turning the tables sounds fun. Mine the data of the data miners.

I am almost certain that FB would put a stop to it though, as hypocritical as it may be.

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