Off-Facebook activity

Post by chippy » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 12:02 PM UTC

hatenberg wrote: post #67

kpozin wrote: post #12

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…

Google has long bought credit card transactions and so probably have dozens of others. The root cause is that they are allowed to be sold

Post by eivarv » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 12:04 PM UTC

Post by LeifCarrotson » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 12:07 PM UTC

chippy wrote: post #101

hatenberg wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google has long bought credit card transactions and so probably have dozens of others. The root cause is that they are allowed to be sold

are credit cards different from debit cards in this regard? Do some credit cards not sell your transactions?

Post by throwawaylolx » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 12:08 PM UTC

stiray wrote: post #89

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)?

By far the worst thing are android phone applications (not only FB official app). They have their spyware bundled and can slurp from you the data which are normally unaccessible by web browser, from phone number, imei, mail addresses to all your contacts and there is almost nothing you can do except installing vpn based firewall (like NetGuard) and block all access and add permissions one by one for each url. This sh…

Post by afandian » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 12:10 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #99

afandian wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Realise that you don't really need those android apps, or the google or facebook account. The utility and entertainment you get is half of surveillance capitalism ecosystem, and the other half is that they compile all this information about you. I know it sounds preachy and it's not a conclusion most people will like. But, like fasting, going without something you like but don't really need does help you focus on wha…

I don't actually care all that much and I like my luxuries. Do I "need" the Google account? No. Do I want to tell every person and business currently using it that I've changed email? Also no, that's a huge amount of work. Likewise for facebook, which is now down to once-a-day-ish use for coordination with a specific group of people whom I do not want to do the work of moving all of them off Facebook too.