I'm glad Facebook chose the name that they did. Hopefully enough people will ask, "why does Facebook care about my activity off Facebook?"
Off-Facebook Activity
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#82How does this work in terms of GDPR? If it’s only rolled out in a few countries, surely this is Facebook admitting they collect this data but we have no way to access it right now?
Shouldn’t this incur a rather heavy fine?
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#83Why do people keep using facebook? I don't want to see this shit anymore.
They use it because they get value out of it.
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#84Honestly, it pisses me off that I even have to THINK about this.
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#85Facebook can receive whatever they deserve, but let's clap our hands on their development team. React is what currently puts bread on my table and it seems like it will do so for a long time. I can't think of a single big win from a social network in spending their money for R&D than FB ( look at LinkedIn for example ).
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#86For Android, privacytools.io advises Blokada. It is an app that runs a sort of local pihole which enables it to block trackers in any app, not just a web browser. I don’t have an android phone myself, but I was very impressed when I tried it out on someone else’s. Is there a similar for iOS that anyone is aware of?
DNSCloak ( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dnscloak-secure-dns-client/id1... ) seems to do the job.
thanks! I've been looking for something like this for while.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's my question as well, they aren't saying anything about shadow profiles. It seems like a ploy to get people to create accounts just to 'stop' tracking.
If you read the article linked in the comments, it looks like this works by creating a special tracking ID for each user that can be disconnected from the real UID, if the user chooses to. So if you don't have FB, presumably you already don't have UID, so you're on equal footing with Facebook users that use this future. They are tracked, but tracking data is not connected to their UIDs.
If you don't have a facebook account, facebook likely has a shadow profile for you. Which would carry your phone number, full name, and whatever else they could extract from your friends' phonebooks and whatever other sources they use. There is no opting out of that, and there is no opting out of facebook getting third party data that lets them connect your shadow profile to a cookie, or to information collected by third parties.
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#88Firefox, firefox, firefox!
((facebook containers -> it looks after you))
ironically, posted with Chrome
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#89Hey Guys, We here at Facebook realized you don't trust our apps, so we made another app that makes you think our apps are safe. Despite this just being another app within our portfolio of tracking tools. Please download and install, otherwise the other apps may not work eventually. Trust us. ಠ_ಠ
And just look at that lovely, friendly new shade of blue! There's no way a company using that color can mean any harm!
Blue, the color of calm.
And data hoarding.
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#90Hey Guys, We here at Facebook realized you don't trust our apps, so we made another app that makes you think our apps are safe. Despite this just being another app within our portfolio of tracking tools. Please download and install, otherwise the other apps may not work eventually. Trust us. ಠ_ಠ
Where does it say you need to download another app? It lives in the Settings tab of the main app.