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My activity was largely from apps on my phone. I just uninstalled and reviewed every one of those that was unnecessary. Unfortunately I need to find a new financial aggregator, because mine was sharing data with FB. I've seen a few self hosted ones listed on hn.
Which one was sharing the data?
I can't believe that this stuff is acceptible, or even legal. The fact that you're tracked off-Facebook (for instance), even if you're not logged in or on Facebook is not just creepy, but borderline abusive.
Congratulations, of all the people who have responded with outrage on this thread, you are the only person I've found that has a website listed that DOESN'T run Google Analytics or some other third party analytics platform.
Clearly I need to step it up. I was (unsurprisingly) surprised at what I've observed they've managed to correlate. I run standard pi-hole, resist fingerprinting, and normally go through a VPN (mainly because I'm on public wifi half the time when travelling). I haven't logged into facebook in about four years, just did it for the first time today to see what's been correlated. Aside the mountain of irrelevant notifica…
They only had two small websites for me. Great success! I'll share my strategy. On desktop: Banking: Vivaldi Browser w/ privacy badger and ublock origin Email and Commerce: Chrome Browser w/ privacy badger and ublock origin News and other BS (like Hacker News): Firefox browser, always in private mode w/ privacy badger and ublock origin LinkedIn (in the rare case I use it): Internet Explorer Mobile: Facebook: Opera Co…
My strategy (Desktop & Mobile):
Firefox + Facebook Container & uBlock Origin & Privacy Badger & DDG as search.
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The right of privacy. The right of dominion of ones own affairs. There right to not be harassed by soulless individuals and companies who are 'merely' seeking to gratify their greed.
If rights were violated then this would all be illegal. Clearly it isn't. In the US, there is no constitutional right to privacy, and any legal precedents are mostly about government surveillance. There's new data privacy regulations at the state and federal level going into effect which is why FB made these changes, but they don't explicitly prevent this kind of data sharing from an outside company using first-party…
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Yes that is something I plan to address by switching to another blogging platform. If you look at the GA ID you'll notice it's not mine and it belongs to my blogging platform (which apparently enables GA with their own ID even if you don't provide a custom one instead of just disabling the feature). Edit: I have now deleted the DNS records so the website will be down until I have time to fix this properly.
Do you have another platform (ideally self-hosted) in mind? I used to run a WordPress instance for my personal site but took it down after it got annoying to stay on top of the frequent updates and security fixes.
I’d look into static site generators but the problems with them is that I will always be tempted to tinker with it which is why I went with a hosted solution.
I will look into Substack as I’ve seen it used quite a bit around here recently. If not, I’ll see what Squarespace has to offer.
I actually tried emailing the owner of Svbtle (the platform I used) about removing GA but haven’t had a reply.
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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.
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>, they managed to obtain a `PURCHASE` event from Macy's interesting.. they could use that to predict earnings..
You don't even necessarily have to predict earnings. If you've ever connected to your financial account via a service like Plaid or it's ilk, that service has an API endpoint[1] they can call to neatly package up your income information. Sometimes it seems innocuous and unassuming for a one time use like identity verification, or to set up automated payments, or a one off transfer/disbursement. Other times it's for s…
My payroll and accounting systems are talking to Facebook about me. Why? I have no idea.
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Congratulations, of all the people who have responded with outrage on this thread, you are the only person I've found that has a website listed that DOESN'T run Google Analytics or some other third party analytics platform.
Thanks, but what value does your appeal to people's hypocracy bring to this discussion?