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Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites

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Re: Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites

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Post by Artemis2 »

Jemm wrote: post #31

127.0.0.1 facebook.com

Ghostery and the EFF's Privacy Badger are your friends. You will get better blocking as these maintain lists with all the alternate domains they use.

https://www.ghostery.com/try-us/download-browser-extension/

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

Re: Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites

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Post by sp332 »

tommeader wrote: post #29
bdz wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

uBlock Origin + EFF Privacy Badger is a really powerful combo and works fine

Isn't that overkill? EFF Privacy Badger states that it's a one-extension solution rather than having ghostery, adblock + others: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger (2nd FAQ) I've never tried Privacy Badger myself, what's your reasoning for having both? Is it not quite as all-encompassing as it claims?

It's an anti-tracking extension, not an adblocker. uBlock Origin lets you sign up to custom lists and make custom rules which can include cosmetic filters. These are helpful for removing things from view even if they get loaded by your browser, which is darn convenient even though it's useless for preventing tracking.

Re: Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites

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Post by necessity »

lucb1e wrote: post #14

They have been doing this since forever and if I remember correctly, the EU told them to stop. I don't remember if they really did stop (at least, I'm not sure if they say they did, nobody knows what they really did of course). /me opens article Oh, it's about showing ads to non-users, not about tracking. The article doesn't even claim they didn't track non-users before. Clickbait?

Didn't they also do this before? I remember installing Fanboy's Social Annoyances List in my ad blocker years ago and never seeing those like buttons and social media crap again.

Re: Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites

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Post by gruez »

pcora wrote: post #30
sdoering wrote: post #8

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wc -l /etc/hosts == 11846 About 90% are blocked sites. The rest is local (privat and business) dev configuration.

serious question, doesn't having such a big hosts file affects performance somehow?

The time it takes to scan a 10k line file (even if it's not cached in memory) is much smaller than a round trip to your DNS server.

Re: Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites

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Post by necessity »

bballer wrote: post #26
sdoering wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know a lot of AdBlocking Tools/List that do not block Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics by default. Do you know the ones that do?

Just to add to the others comments, get NoScript and you can control exactly who gets to run Javascript at all times. It makes the internet so much safer and you will be blown away at how many domains some sites are trying to run scripts from.

By the way, isn't there a way to do this on Firefox itself? It would be an interesting option along with "don't accept cookies; exceptions".
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