Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites
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Re: Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites
#2All the more reason to block their widgets on other websites, using something like Ghostery or Disconnect.
Re: Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites
#3Surprised they weren't doing that already. Facebook has javascript injected on a lot of sites, always assumed that they'd collect a shit ton of data whether you are a user or not.
Also, all ad blockers block google analytics like tracking services but social plugins are generally opt in. I guess they should be blocked by default too.
Re: Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites
#4Surprised Facebook didn't by AddThis when it was up for sell; instead Oracle did.
Re: Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites
#5while non-Facebook members can opt-out through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the US, the Digital Advertising Alliance in Canada, and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe.
Or you can just block all requests to their domains. I have *.facebook.com and a few others blocked.
Re: Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites
#6Zero ethics
Re: Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites
#7All the more reason to block their widgets on other websites, using something like Ghostery or Disconnect.
Another alternative is EFF's PrivacyBadger:
https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
All this in addition to an ad-blocker (such as uBlock Origin) of course.
Re: Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites
#8while non-Facebook members can opt-out through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the US, the Digital Advertising Alliance in Canada, and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe. Or you can just block all requests to their domains. I have *.facebook.com and a few others blocked.
wc -l /etc/hosts == 11846
About 90% are blocked sites. The rest is local (privat and business) dev configuration.
Re: Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites
#9Begins? I though they were already tracking everyone who saw a Facebook badge anywhere on the internet already. Or were they just trying to track the users who were not logged in at the time?
Re: Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites
#10Surprised they weren't doing that already. Facebook has javascript injected on a lot of sites, always assumed that they'd collect a shit ton of data whether you are a user or not. Also, all ad blockers block google analytics like tracking services but social plugins are generally opt in. I guess they should be blocked by default too.
I know a lot of AdBlocking Tools/List that do not block Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics by default.
Do you know the ones that do?