Oh man, am I pissed when FB learns something from my current Googling subjects and advertises me this creepily specific stuff. I always report it and ask to hide it, it&#x27;s super offensive that it would do that.  I try to keep FB use restricted to an incognito window for this reason and this doesn&#x27;t often happen.<p>But this wasn&#x27;t what we were talking about, I thought surveillance meant that the conversations you have on FB might be less anonymous than having them in real life - that&#x27;s what it means to me.  Except that the consquences are the same: none.  la-de-da.<p>to turn it right around: &quot;If the target doesn&#x27;t feel the need to change their behavior, are you really restricting his&#x2F;her freedom in any way?&quot;  Plus, it&#x27;s not &quot;need to change their behavior&quot;.  Participating on FB is <i>new</i> behavior.<p>it&#x27;s like having a chatty new friend, but who is gossipy.  You know what you&#x27;re getting into when you&#x27;re talking with them, could still be worth it, and for billions of people including me, it is. I&#x27;m much more concerned with what FB shows my friends (i.e. my privacy settings) than some nebulous phantom objection to the fact that it&#x27;s not all encrypted in a way that is end-to-end between clients, hiding the traffic even from facebook, generating dummy traffic with friends you&#x27;re not actually talking to etc.<p>That would be the actual answer to the &quot;surveillance&quot; objection, and I guarantee you that even on this technical forum, the previous paragraph is the first time you even heard of this off-the-wall idea that nobody is suggesting.  Stopping FB surveillance is just a non-issue.