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Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by kpozin »

In my profile, they managed to obtain a `PURCHASE` event from Macy's -- for an in-person purchase at a physical store. Macy's has my email address and certainly linked it to my credit card number, but this is nonetheless seriously creepy.

I just tried to change my email address on Facebook and discovered that they canonicalize plus and dot variations in gmail.com addresses, and thus claim that the new email address is already associated with an account. Ended up having to create a completely new email alias on my own domain.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by akie »

wukerplank wrote: post #2

Wow that's creepy. It lists apps where a) I didn't use FB login/signup and b) used a different email address to sign up. How do they cross-reference that to me? Hand how can I prevent that outside of their tools (which I assume still violate my privacy)?

What you can do to prevent this is:

1) Install https://www.eff.org/privacybadger to prevent trackers from being loaded

2) Install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode... to delete any cookies you might have accepted after a week time or so, which prevents the infinite gobbling-up of your data after innocently accepting a cookie once

3) Install the Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon containers to "separate" your browsing with these sites from the rest of your browsing. Links: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitter-conta... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amazon-contai...

Also, if you are creeped out by this, just imagine the amount of data Google has on you. I'm convinced they have way more, just by virtue of every website having Google Analytics installed.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by pirocks »

m1 wrote: post #8

A bit weird that my Monzo seems to be sending data to Facebook?

As far as I can tell almost every bank with an app is sending your email/advertising id/name/etc. to Facebook(+ other surveillance companies).

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by avh02 »

subaru_shoe wrote: post #7
wukerplank wrote: post #2

Wow that's creepy. It lists apps where a) I didn't use FB login/signup and b) used a different email address to sign up. How do they cross-reference that to me? Hand how can I prevent that outside of their tools (which I assume still violate my privacy)?

For starters you can delete your facebook account .

I don't think that'd really be true, since they'd just have it stored in the background without you having a FB account (and wouldn't have the ability to see how bad it is)

not saying that's worth having an account though.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by crashbunny »

subaru_shoe wrote: post #7
wukerplank wrote: post #2

Wow that's creepy. It lists apps where a) I didn't use FB login/signup and b) used a different email address to sign up. How do they cross-reference that to me? Hand how can I prevent that outside of their tools (which I assume still violate my privacy)?

For starters you can delete your facebook account .

does that stop facebook from collecting data about you? I didn't think it did, and because you don't have an account it's not, or at least wasn't possible to control any privacy settings.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by m1 »

Nextgrid wrote: post #11
m1 wrote: post #8

A bit weird that my Monzo seems to be sending data to Facebook?

Could you say more or provide a screenshot? I’m very curious and concerned about this.

It just says interactions were received from Monzo.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by fretn »

subaru_shoe wrote: post #7
wukerplank wrote: post #2

Wow that's creepy. It lists apps where a) I didn't use FB login/signup and b) used a different email address to sign up. How do they cross-reference that to me? Hand how can I prevent that outside of their tools (which I assume still violate my privacy)?

For starters you can delete your facebook account .

which I did a couple of years ago. Now I have no idea what they know about me. I use adblock and friends, but I wonder how much data about me they still manage to gather

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by m1 »

pirocks wrote: post #14
m1 wrote: post #8

A bit weird that my Monzo seems to be sending data to Facebook?

As far as I can tell almost every bank with an app is sending your email/advertising id/name/etc. to Facebook(+ other surveillance companies).

I have a couple of other bank accounts and none of the others seem to be sending data to Facebook.
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