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Neither do I, once again, frustratingly bad reporting.

My guess is that the 'ad' is has a 'sign up' where people can input information, which can be sensitive, that is capture for the advertiser. I could be anything i.e. contests, emails, whatever. The advertiser can get the data in a spreadsheet later.

If the company doing the ad is 'fake' then you have a CA like scandal possibly, where the fake company can sell that harvested data, some of it sensitive.

I think there are legit concerns here, but I mean, the companies could just as easily direct them to their own url and ask users to 'sign up', which would likely be beyond Facebooks purview to control.



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