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Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by robjan »

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?

It's the card network (MasterCard, Visa, AE) that sells your data. They each have their own op out:

* https://marketingreportoptout.visa.com/OPTOUT/request.do

* https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/about-mastercard/what-we-do/....

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by smichel17 »

crashbunny wrote: post #16
subaru_shoe wrote: post #7

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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.

Technically, no. Legally, it means you haven't accepted their terms of service, so if/when (I hope) the political privacy landscape changes, it'll be more likely that you can sue, report a violation, request deletion, (or maybe they'd even preemptively delete it to cover their tracks / come into compliance with new laws).

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by aembleton »

s_Hogg wrote: post #70
Nextgrid wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blocking the entire Facebook ASN at the firewall/network level stops this. Google is a bit more tricky as they also have GCP so you can’t block their ASN without also blocking innocent services.

How does one do this?

If you are running Android >=9 then you can block the trackers by changing your DNS settings to use one from https://nextdns.io/

Instructions on changing DNS settings https://joyofandroid.com/how-to-change-dns-on-android/

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by agloeregrets »

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…

I saw the same for Gap inc for a list of in-store purchases at Old Navy. Incredibly on the nose about how screwed privacy is going to be soon.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by Zarel »

milankragujevic wrote: post #110

Apparently my website is complicit in this... I'm disgusted with and ashamed of myself. https://i.imgur.com/Wz7O8HU.png Edit: typo complacenet to complicit, thanks Zarel.

(I think you wanted to use "complicit")

Please update us as to how this happened!

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by Nextgrid »

pjc50 wrote: post #102
s_Hogg wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does one do this?

Specifically, how do you do it on a normal Android device? Is it even possible to do this on an iOS device that's on 4G or someone else's wifi? Do iOS devices have the same "leak"?

You either need to control the mobile side of things and never connect to unrestricted Wi-Fi or use Apple Configurator to create a profile for an always-on VPN to a place you control where you can apply the restrictions.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by smichel17 »

s_Hogg wrote: post #70
Nextgrid wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blocking the entire Facebook ASN at the firewall/network level stops this. Google is a bit more tricky as they also have GCP so you can’t block their ASN without also blocking innocent services.

How does one do this?

I'm blocking Facebook DNS requests using DNS66. I'd also be interested in how to block their entire ASN, though.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by bobsoap »

Vinnl wrote: post #68
chrisjamesc wrote: post #9

If 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"

One warning it gives me: > We will still receive future activities from companies and organisations you visit. These might be used for analytics and to improve our advertising systems, but will not be connected to your account. (Translated from Dutch because for some reason Facebook figured I'd want this particular message in Dutch.)

Extrapolation: "Account" here means the Facebook account created by you and visible to you; probably distinct from "Profile" in their lingo, which is all the data they have on you, of which most is invisible to you. If this is true, that's not an opt-out for data collection, just a choice to keep that info from showing in your account while merrily continuing to build your profile.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by milankragujevic »

Zarel wrote: post #116
milankragujevic wrote: post #110

Apparently my website is complicit in this... I'm disgusted with and ashamed of myself. https://i.imgur.com/Wz7O8HU.png Edit: typo complacenet to complicit, thanks Zarel.

(I think you wanted to use "complicit") Please update us as to how this happened!

I think I have a pixel on there for some reason? I don't recall why I put it there.

It really does hurt when you see how awful your own behaviour is, i.e. by spying on users. I'm sorry everyone!

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