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Off-Facebook activity
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Re: Off-Facebook activity
#22A bit weird that my Monzo seems to be sending data to Facebook?
Not really.
They have the Facebook Pixel installed likely to do retargeting advertising when a person visits their website.
It's one of the most effective methods so it's very common to see it everywhere.
Re: Off-Facebook activity
#23A bit weird that my Monzo seems to be sending data to Facebook?
Hmm, that feels incident worthy.
My bank should send precisely zero things to advertising / marketing companies.
Have you raised it with their Help team? You should.
Unfortunately I cannot as I do not have a facebook account so cannot determine whether or not facebook hold data on me without creating an account.
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#24Wow 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 container…
Even before firefox containers, I used a dedicated profile for facebook only as well as using privacy badger and ublock origin. Facebook still collected data about me from external sites. I think mainly through my phone, possibly through linking phone number or email addresses.
Re: Off-Facebook activity
#25My off-facebook activity was empty. That's encouraging, because it looks like my countermeasures have been working:
- Fingerprinting resistance in Firefox (privacy.resistFingerprinting = true)
- First-party isolation in Firefox (privacy.firstparty.isolate = true)
- Blocking third-party cookies in Firefox (network.cookie.cookieBehavior = 1)
- Firefox container when I need to login to ad/tracking companies (Facebook, Google)
- uBlock Origin
- Cookie AutoDelete
- PiHole on my home network
Re: Off-Facebook activity
#26A bit weird that my Monzo seems to be sending data to Facebook?
Not really. They have the Facebook Pixel installed likely to do retargeting advertising when a person visits their website. It's one of the most effective methods so it's very common to see it everywhere.
This is related to their app not their website.
Re: Off-Facebook activity
#27Wow 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 container…
I found a mere four items in my activity list, all from several months ago, probably when I mistakenly used the wrong container or had uBlock turned off. It's nice to see all my anti-tracking software is working!
Re: Off-Facebook activity
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really. They have the Facebook Pixel installed likely to do retargeting advertising when a person visits their website. It's one of the most effective methods so it's very common to see it everywhere.
This is related to their app not their website.
Same applies to their app.
Doing retargeting for when (a) someone downloads their app but doesn't signup and (b) someone is a customer but has low engagement i.e. is likely to churn.
Re: Off-Facebook activity
#29A bit weird that my Monzo seems to be sending data to Facebook?
Hmm, that feels incident worthy. My bank should send precisely zero things to advertising / marketing companies. Have you raised it with their Help team? You should. Unfortunately I cannot as I do not have a facebook account so cannot determine whether or not facebook hold data on me without creating an account.
Might be worth a post on their community.
Re: Off-Facebook activity
#30In 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…
This is likely based on an Offline Conversion which advertisers can bulk upload to FB