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Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by ddalex »

abdusco wrote: post #106
jannes wrote: post #25

My 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, G…

How do you cope with constant reCAPTCHA prompts? I get prompted by Google when using search, because it thinks I'm a bot if I'm anonymous enough.

There should be an extension to automatically filter the reCAPTCHA-using sites out of the results of the search engines.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by culturestate »

feintruled wrote: post #158
culturestate wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you use the same e-mail address for both Deliveroo and Facebook? If so, that could be how they matched you. Facebook lets businesses create custom retargeting audiences[1] from existing customers, and you can (obviously) include interaction data in order to segment e.g. frequent customers from occasional customers. 1. https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1472206006327390

I suppose that would explain it. I can't see what Deliveroo get out of it though, and how they might expect Facebook to have a better handle on what sort of food I would order and how often as opposed to Deliveroo themselves, who know. I wonder if they have plans for service expansion into "Deliveroo but for X" and want to see what their customers are into. Or perhaps they want to see if I am two-timing them with Jus…

> how they might expect Facebook to have a better handle on what sort of food I would order and how often as opposed to Deliveroo themselves

That's not really the idea - they're just trying to serve you ads wherever they think you might see them. Retargeting (whether it's through Facebook ads or AdWords or what have you) is one more engagement lever alongside push notifications, emails, etc.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by rypskar »

WA wrote: post #79
CreepyLife wrote: post #40

If Google and Facebook is ready to "show" these data, I wonder what and how much data they are hiding.

Good point. I also wonder what the motivation behind this tool is. Furthermore, I don't understand how any of this is GDPR-compliant.

INAL but will guess it is to make facebook GDPR-compliant. They show the data they have about us, but don't know if the apps that send the data to fb have used opt-in to enable sending data to fb. Maybe time to start writing emails to the companies who have uploaded our information without consent?

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by qu4ku »

Nowhere to hide.

Just a few days ago I wanted to research some nasty disease and I used brave on TOR to watch some stuff about it on YT.

First thing after I opened FB was a clinical laboratory tests adv.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by ivyirwin »

My first reaction to this was to be creeped out. Even being in the industry how did all of these sites (560) have data about me that they were willingly sending to Facebook without my permission. And while I have a Facebook account, I am not a Facebook user – as in I've logged in twice in the last year to see a neighborhood post or the like.

But then I went from creeped out to oh shit as sites I run were on the list. The way Facebook puts it, these businesses are actively sharing data with Facebook for the businesses benefit. But as a developer who has been asked to put a pixel on a site many times, I have to rethink the data exchange here. Obviously the sites are not getting the benefit that Facebook is receiving from everyone piping in data – often unknowingly.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by hellofunk »

hughes wrote: post #168
stonedge wrote: post #160

Allegedly, I ditched my Facebook account years ago. Not just deactivated but delete, though I don’t really believe it. Is there anyway to see what’s in this (or to see if my account really is gone) without accidentally re-upping?

I had deactivated my account about a year ago. I tried logging in to view this page, and it reactivated everything immediately. Also, it has clearly been linking a vast quantity of off-facebook activity despite my account being deactivated.

Facebook provides two different options, one is deactivation and the other one is deleting. They are not the same thing. If you merely deactivated it, then your account never was deleted.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by gpvos »

organsnyder wrote: post #154
LeifCarrotson wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, if it's data they can collect it's data they can sell. Can't sell cash transactions yet!

Unless you are carrying your cell phone at the time—not sure anyone is doing this yet, but I have heard of at least one chain that tracks customers' cell phone locations via triangulation.

Which chain?

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by loxs »

lioeters wrote: post #90
padraic7a wrote: post #73

One thing I'm not clear on - when I click on Coinbase (just one example) I see the following under 'What you can do'; - View coinbase.com - Turn off future activity from coinbase.com - Give feedback about this activity Does 'turn off' mean they won't share this information again, or that I won't be told about it again?

I believe the vague wording is intentional, so they can just stop displaying it to you, while continuing to collect the data. It's like how "delete account" works.

It's not that vague, if you do click to disable you are taken to page that words it quite directly.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by the_snooze »

StavrosK wrote: post #47
randomchars wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They could be associating you server-side using persistent identifiers on your phone. For example, if an app has the Facebook SDK, it could send your IMEI to Facebook. Then, if you have a first-party Facebook app like Messenger, that too can send your IMEI to Facebook and link it back to your Facebook account.
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