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

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Security is not the same as privacy.

Tracking your activity is not an security issue its a privacy issue.

Tracking literaly just means recording (aka logging) what websites you request and how you move your mouse and all that.

You can send that information over an encrypted channel like HTTPS.

HTTPS only encrypts what you send between you and the website. The website owner still gets to decrypt and see everything.

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