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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.
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For Revolut, I have many many entries like: ID 894103617218109 Event CUSTOM Received on 13 November 2019 at 09:51 The only event is "CUSTOM".
I use Revolut but my page is empty. I imagine it's because I don't have the Facebook nor Messenger apps installed on my phone.
I also suspect that soon Whatsapp will be doing the same sinister activity tracking once they go ahead with their plan to introduce ads later this year.
Is it necessary to have a FB account in order to read TFA?
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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/... .
https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/about-mastercard/what-we-do/...
I realize this is an unpopular opinion around here... but can anyone explain how they have actually been harmed by this? Like for real not in abstract notions of "creepiness" or whatever. I, for one with Facebook actually figured how to do something useful with that data and not be that raw sewage stream that basically led to stop logging in.
The biggest impact, for me, is that the dominance of Google and Facebook based on having access to this data for the general population has led to worse advertising revenue for the news industry and some of my favorite websites. That has caused some of them to rely on memberships and paywalls.
I also don't appreciate that the money that they've accrued due to their dominance as a result of data like this has led to undue political influence. That comes at the expense, I believe, of voters (and I'm one of them). I don't think that power is healthy for a democracy, generally. I believe this about non-tech companies, too, so I wouldn't suggest anybody just pick on this industry.
This isn't to say that I'm not concerned about privacy. It's only to say that IF YOU AREN'T, then there are other reasons to root for people to have transparency around how their data gets passed around.
I clicked the link and was told I needed to log into Facebook to continue. Is it necessary to have a FB account in order to read TFA?
I realize this is an unpopular opinion around here... but can anyone explain how they have actually been harmed by this? Like for real not in abstract notions of "creepiness" or whatever. I, for one with Facebook actually figured how to do something useful with that data and not be that raw sewage stream that basically led to stop logging in.
My particular issues are different from most people here. The biggest impact, for me, is that the dominance of Google and Facebook based on having access to this data for the general population has led to worse advertising revenue for the news industry and some of my favorite websites. That has caused some of them to rely on memberships and paywalls. I also don't appreciate that the money that they've accrued due to…
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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.
So you can ask https://www.radb.net/ for the IP addresses that are associated with this AS and, after a quick manual sanity check, insert it into the firewall of your choice. For example:
whois -h whois.radb.net '!gAS32934'| tr ' ' "\n" | sed 's/^/saddr /'| sed 's/$/ DROP;/'