Custom Audiences

Hey guys.

I have been wondering about this for a little while now. Custom Audiences for Facebook is extremely powerful... except it is clearly against the Facebook Terms of Service when you scrape people's UIDs to market to them.

Except, it doesn't make sense really.

For example, look at the Graph Search. It allows us to see precisely who we want by narrowing our search, allowing us to view people that have that precise interest and that match our criteria. What is the point of allowing regular day-to-day users to do this? Add some people that we don't know? Do we really give permission for Facebook to implement this feature so that other people can stalk us or worse, use this information for "evil"? No.

If we use Custom Audiences we basically are showing people things that they already want... which is great, except it's against their rules to actually do that because we need to scrape the data first.

Has anyone been banned for doing this? It seems that a large number of Warriors do this regardless, even the well-known ones. Any way around the possible banning from Facebook?

Let's discuss this.