Eli5: How is https secure when all social media companies track you?

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It just means the connection between the website and your device is encrypted. This doesn’t prevent the website from spying on you but it prevents other people from snooping on what you’re doing on the website. The site has legal permission to spy on you, you give them permission to collect an enormous variety of information about you including what you do on other websites. That’s how they make their money

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