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Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by mnicky »

deadbunny wrote: post #353
y-c-o-m-b wrote: post #341

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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…

I also had only 2 sites/apps. One I used Facebook oauth, the other I'm not 100% sure what it was. My strategy (Desktop & Mobile): Firefox + Facebook Container & uBlock Origin & Privacy Badger & DDG as search.

For me they have nothing (success! :)

I use Firefox + FB container + uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger and recently started to use CanvasBlocker as well. I have Firefox configured to delete all cookies on closing (except for few sites to avoid the need to enter the 2FA code every time I log in).

I've also set Firefox Enhanced Tracking Protection to "Custom mode" with "cross-site and social media trackers" blocked [1] and to use block list "level 2".

I also have the "Do Not Track" option switched on.

I don't have a proper smartphone (never owned one), just KaiOS-powered dumb-phone on which I use Facebook mobile (i.e. their web site) all the time.

Also no Pi-Hole or similar stuff.

I use a throwaway email account for Facebook.

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[1] Just now I've found out that there seems to be a new option, to disable "all cookies from unvisited sites", which I'm going to try as it looks even better.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by dd36 »

dmayle wrote: post #217
dd36 wrote: post #164

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It’s crazy that they do this yet still charge nearly 3%.

They don't charge 3%, they charge about a tenth of a percent (0.11%). What you think of as fees is actually a basket of charges going to different parties. almost 2% goes to your (the purchaser) credit card company to cover the risk of you not paying them, about a percent goes to the store's bank to cover the case when they have to give the money back (either because it was a fraudulent online transaction, or the sto…

They force merchants to accept the 3% as a function of their oligopoly power. Merchants don’t negotiate anything inside the basket.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by sails »

mnicky wrote: post #391
deadbunny wrote: post #353

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I also had only 2 sites/apps. One I used Facebook oauth, the other I'm not 100% sure what it was. My strategy (Desktop & Mobile): Firefox + Facebook Container & uBlock Origin & Privacy Badger & DDG as search.

For me they have nothing (success! :) I use Firefox + FB container + uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger and recently started to use CanvasBlocker as well. I have Firefox configured to delete all cookies on closing (except for few sites to avoid the need to enter the 2FA code every time I log in). I've also set Firefox Enhanced Tracking Protection to "Custom mode" with "cross-site and social media trackers" blocked [1] an…

> I use a throwaway email account for Facebook

I feel like this might be key, I use a random burner number and this seems to confuse the tracking.

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