Interestingly, none of the other "big brother" companies show up on my activity feed, even though I do use them. No Apple. No Amazon. No Google. No Netflix. Not even Microsoft.
Anyone else??
Wow, this is beyond creepy.
Off-Facebook activity
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#272"You have no available activity to show at this time."
Qubes OS with disposable VMs helps!
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#273You people all still use Facebook in 202? Yikes... hackernewsflash: You are the problem.
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#274In 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…
Dot variations in Gmail all belong to you by default. That's a Gmail thing not a Facebook thing.
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#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree. While its easy to point at Facebook and say "they are so creepy" - this sounds like the type of challenge every marketing department faces. "What is the attribution of X,Y,Z ad campaigns?" Connecting purchase + email + 'where the ad happened' via social solves that.
Every profession has challenges. Most of them don’t resort to violating the rights of others to solve those challenges.
What rights are being violated here?
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#276My 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…
Out of all activities you listed, just 3rd party Cookie blocking and using any "login with Facebook" buttons would give the same result for Web. I don't think any of the activities you listed would prevent the data collected through apps though.
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#277Blind app send interactions to Facebook. This defies the whole point of blind app. This is so wrong on so many levels.
This was the most shocking for me. How is Blind getting my FB info from the app? Is there a way to prevent this on Android?
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#278Ah, so disappointing that I need a Facebook account to read this. The joy of missing out.
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#279Apparently 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.
You mean you didn't know this would happen by adding something (script, tracker, pixel, etc.) to your site, or you don't have a root cause as to why your own site is sending data to FB?
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#280Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your Mastercard URL got truncated somehow. It's a pretty easy search, though. Just the same, thanks for linking because I had no idea this was even an option: https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/about-mastercard/what-we-do/...
> To opt-out from our anonymization of your personal information to perform data analyses, please provide your Mastercard or Maestro payment card number below. This sounds like they are going to continue using my purchase data but without anonymization? Not a native speaker so perhaps I'm just misunderstanding the sentence.
I think they tried to formulate it so it will sound less damning for them, like they want to make it explicit that what they performed their data analysis on is your anonymized personal information.