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Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by cmroanirgo »

pmlnr wrote: post #32

"just must log in to read this" Can someone please share it?

It's a page for people with an account at FB that lists the 3rd party websites that have given information to FB.

> Off-Facebook activity includes information that businesses and organisations share with us about your interactions with them, such as visiting their apps or websites.

It's creepy.

> We receive more details and activity than what appears here. For technical and accuracy reasons, this list doesn't show all of the activity that we've received. Activity that is not shown includes information that we've received when you're not logged in to Facebook, or when we can't confirm that you've previously used Facebook on that device. It also includes details such as the item that you added to your shopping basket.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by pjc50 »

Hmm. I have no website activity listed - but seemingly every single Android game and a few other apps is sending "activity" to FB, despite me never using any feature to associate the two. This sounds like: https://privacyinternational.org/report/2647/how-apps-androi...

Any sensible way of stopping this?

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by feintruled »

Deliveroo has evidently been sending them all my orders. Or at least, there are as many 'interactions' as I have made orders. I don't log in via my Facebook so that is an unwelcome surprise.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by StavrosK »

akie wrote: post #13
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 container…

Those are good, but they don't work for what the GP is talking about. I'm seeing games/apps associated with my FB account even though I never logged in to FB with them or gave them any info. I literally just opened the app and that activity was associated with my FB account.

I have no idea how they're doing this, since they didn't even request storage access (or I didn't give it). Can any Android developer here chime in on how an app can figure out my Facebook ID even though I don't even have Facebook installed on my phone and didn't give any sort of credential or access to the app?

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by akie »

cmroanirgo wrote: post #33
akie wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Agreed, even with all of the above I had about 15 or so sites in that Facebook list. I suspect it's because I was logged in to Facebook on my phone's browser for a while. Not sure why I even did that...

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by StavrosK »

randomchars wrote: post #4
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)?

I think they either: - use Facebook pixel tracking on the site. - hand over all of their user's email addresses to use for audience building. Or most likely both. Creepy stuff indeed.

I use uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger on my desktop and phone, as well as Blokada, and yet Facebook still had a bunch of app activity even though I never ever sign in to stuff using FB (or even gave the apps my email or any other piece of personal data).

I literally just opened the app, granted no permissions, used it a bit, and Facebook associated it with my account. What the fuck.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by StavrosK »

dannyr wrote: post #45

Man I feel hopeless. I have not connected my Facebook account for over 90% of these sites/apps but they still sent my data to Facebook.

Same here. At least you can just turn it off on this page, and hopefully that will do something.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by kjakm »

What are the best ways to protect against this kind of tracking? I would argue it's probably better to keep a Facebook account so you can see what they're tracking and work to prevent it.

In my browser I'm running uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, and Privacy Badger. I'm guessing those will help quite a lot. However on an iPhone what can I do (as that's where a lot of this data seems to be coming from)?

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