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Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by onreact »

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…

I don't think they will tell you the whole truth.

It's just like with Google history you can "delete".

They have the data stored for the authorities anyway.

They are required to do it by law (Patriot Act etc.)

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by peteretep »

Nextgrid wrote: post #11
m1 wrote: post #8

A bit weird that my Monzo seems to be sending data to Facebook?

Could you say more or provide a screenshot? I’m very curious and concerned about this.

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".

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by SCdF »

There is nothing on this page I was not aware of and intentionally linked (e.g. Strava).

So does this mean I am successfully stopping them from tracking websites I visit via tracking pixels / IP mapping / whatever other nefarious shit they do, or are they just not showing this information here?

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by dannyr »

StavrosK wrote: post #48
dannyr wrote: post #45

Man I feel hopeless. I have not connected my Facebook account for over 90% of these sites/apps but they still sent my data to Facebook.

Same here. At least you can just turn it off on this page, and hopefully that will do something.

Is is too late to change my email address on Facebook?

I'm assuming Facebook keeps a history of my email addresses that it can still associate it to my account.

Another option is to change all my email address at these sites.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by jannes »

kjakm wrote: post #49

What are the best ways to protect against this kind of tracking? I would argue it's probably better to keep a Facebook account so you can see what they're tracking and work to prevent it. In my browser I'm running uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, and Privacy Badger. I'm guessing those will help quite a lot. However on an iPhone what can I do (as that's where a lot of this data seems to be coming from)?

Keep in mind that Facebook probably has a few unique identifiers from you apart from browser cookies:

- Email address

- Cell phone number (even if you only used it for 2FA)

- Credit card number (if you ever made a donation via Facebook or bought digital currency in a Facebook game)

- Advertising ID of your mobile device (can be reset in Android as well as iOS)

In order to avoid tracking, you have to make sure that none of these are known to Facebook and to other companies.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by monort »

StavrosK wrote: post #44
akie wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you can do to prevent this is: 1) Install https://www.eff.org/privacybadger to prevent trackers from being loaded 2) Install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode... to delete any cookies you might have accepted after a week time or so, which prevents the infinite gobbling-up of your data after innocently accepting a cookie once 3) Install the Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon container…

Those are good, but they don't work for what the GP is talking about. I'm seeing games/apps associated with my FB account even though I never logged in to FB with them or gave them any info. I literally just opened the app and that activity was associated with my FB account. I have no idea how they're doing this, since they didn't even request storage access (or I didn't give it). Can any Android developer here chime…

I think they cross-reference Android Advertising ID in their SDK. Have you ever logged to Facebook from your phone?

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-ads/targeting/mobil...

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by afandian »

pjc50 wrote: post #42

Hmm. I have no website activity listed - but seemingly every single Android game and a few other apps is sending "activity" to FB, despite me never using any feature to associate the two. This sounds like: https://privacyinternational.org/report/2647/how-apps-androi... Any sensible way of stopping this?

Realise that you don't really need those android apps, or the google or facebook account. The utility and entertainment you get is half of surveillance capitalism ecosystem, and the other half is that they compile all this information about you.

I know it sounds preachy and it's not a conclusion most people will like. But, like fasting, going without something you like but don't really need does help you focus on what you really do need.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by xg15 »

fyfy18 wrote: post #37
wukerplank wrote: post #2

Wow that's creepy. It lists apps where a) I didn't use FB login/signup and b) used a different email address to sign up. How do they cross-reference that to me? Hand how can I prevent that outside of their tools (which I assume still violate my privacy)?

As an EU "customer" I'm rather surprised by this. There are services that I've signed up to since GDPR came into effect which I didn't get explicitly consent to do this. For example my business bank. Why would I give them permission to share data with my personal Facebook account? I will be digging into this more.

Sounds like the activities view could be some good evidence to give to a data protection commissioner.

Re: Off-Facebook activity

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Post by StavrosK »

monort wrote: post #57
StavrosK wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those are good, but they don't work for what the GP is talking about. I'm seeing games/apps associated with my FB account even though I never logged in to FB with them or gave them any info. I literally just opened the app and that activity was associated with my FB account. I have no idea how they're doing this, since they didn't even request storage access (or I didn't give it). Can any Android developer here chime…

I think they cross-reference Android Advertising ID in their SDK. Have you ever logged to Facebook from your phone? https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-ads/targeting/mobil...

I have, either in the browser or in Swipe (a third-party app). I've never logged in to or installed the Facebook app or Messenger.
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