Apparently Blind made the list. So much for 'anonymous'
Off-Facebook activity
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Re: Off-Facebook activity
#32"just must log in to read this"
Can someone please share it?
Re: Off-Facebook activity
#33Wow 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 use Firefox Containers to limit and logged in FB activity to that & never log in using FB other than FB website itself. I have no FB apps (including WhatsApp).
I've been running uMatrix for a few months.
My firefox tracking-prevention (similar to EFF's one, but probably not as good) is always using maximum privacy settings.
I still have a few sites appear... AND for websites I've never even visited (that I'm aware of, & I'm the only user of this machine)
There seems to be some serious fingerprinting going on, more than simple cookies.
Re: Off-Facebook activity
#34If you want to disable facebook tracking out of facebook in the future, it's possible on this link: https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/future_activi... EDIT: the link doesn't seem to work, so you can click on "Manage Future Activity" => "Manage Future Activity" in the popup => Disable "Future Off-Facebook Activity"
You might not want to disable this completely, because it can be a useful tool to identify data leaks (similar to Troy Hunt's haveibeenpwned.com).
My off-Facebook activity had zero entries and I want to keep it that way. If they ever associate something with me I want to be alerted to the fact.
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#35Seems like most of my data they got from apps on my Android phone, there was even an app that I just installed, opened and uninstalled in less then a minute without even logging in or anything.
How can I block them in the future?
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#36If you want to disable facebook tracking out of facebook in the future, it's possible on this link: https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/future_activi... EDIT: the link doesn't seem to work, so you can click on "Manage Future Activity" => "Manage Future Activity" in the popup => Disable "Future Off-Facebook Activity"
You might not want to disable this completely, because it can be a useful tool to identify data leaks (similar to Troy Hunt's haveibeenpwned.com). My off-Facebook activity had zero entries and I want to keep it that way. If they ever associate something with me I want to be alerted to the fact.
Mine had exactly one entry. And I won’t be doing business with that company anymore. No way am I disabling this. It’s too useful.
Re: Off-Facebook activity
#37Wow 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)?
As an EU "customer" I'm rather surprised by this. There are services that I've signed up to since GDPR came into effect which I didn't get explicitly consent to do this. For example my business bank. Why would I give them permission to share data with my personal Facebook account? I will be digging into this more.
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#38In 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…
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#39Revolut is sending data to them, too. 202 interactions for my account.
That one surprised me as well.
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#40If Google and Facebook is ready to "show" these data, I wonder what and how much data they are hiding.