Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook
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Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook
#2Reminds me of a court case [0] proactively challenging Facebook, due to a time the company gave someone a lifetime ban [1] for making this kind of consumer-tool.
[0] https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/02/meta_facebook_tool/
[1] https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-every...
Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook
#3Cool script.
My hack is to live in a country where the local language is not my own, and not the one I have set in my Facebook settings.
As a result, Facebook rarely has advertisements that can target me, because my language has been filtered out by the advertisers.
When one does appear, it’s nearly always in the local language, so I’m kind of deaf to it and I’m not going to actively respond to anyway.
Luckily they haven’t figured that out yet, even though I’ve been an Facebook user for many years.
Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook
#4Does this just impact ads shown on the site, or does it also cut down on data collection and targeting that occurs when you browse to third party sites who happen to include javascript from Facebook?
How's this technique compare to just staying logged out of Facebook? Or using it solely in a sandboxed browsing environment?
Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook
#5Cool script. My hack is to live in a country where the local language is not my own, and not the one I have set in my Facebook settings. As a result, Facebook rarely has advertisements that can target me, because my language has been filtered out by the advertisers. When one does appear, it’s nearly always in the local language, so I’m kind of deaf to it and I’m not going to actively respond to anyway. Luckily they h…
My hack is to live in a country that forces Facebook to give me an opt-out, and then I click "no" when Facebook asks.
Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook
#6Does this just impact ads shown on the site, or does it also cut down on data collection and targeting that occurs when you browse to third party sites who happen to include javascript from Facebook? How's this technique compare to just staying logged out of Facebook? Or using it solely in a sandboxed browsing environment?
Even if you stay logged out, your data is collected from your mobile devices.
And even if you brick your devices and pull the battery, your data is collected by other people's mobile devices.
It all runs to data brokers in the end, and that data has a reliance on Facebook for additional refinement.
This technique impacts that refinement step.
Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook
#7What browser is this intended for? The below error comes up on Brave on MacOS. Both most up to date version.
VM172:14 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'click') at :14:71 (anonymous) @ VM172:14
Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook
#8Reminds me of a court case [0] proactively challenging Facebook, due to a time the company gave someone a lifetime ban [1] for making this kind of consumer-tool. [0] https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/02/meta_facebook_tool/ [1] https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-every...
A lifetime ban from Facebook would be a blessing for me :)
Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook
#9What browser is this intended for? The below error comes up on Brave on MacOS. Both most up to date version. VM172:14 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'click') at :14:71 (anonymous) @ VM172:14
Ah, that's not a browser delay. That's an internet speed issue. I'll have to add more resilience to account for that. Thanks!
Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook
#10What browser is this intended for? The below error comes up on Brave on MacOS. Both most up to date version. VM172:14 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'click') at :14:71 (anonymous) @ VM172:14
Ah, that's not a browser delay. That's an internet speed issue. I'll have to add more resilience to account for that. Thanks!
yeah, clicking into an advertiser has a ~5 second delay to /api/graphql/ at the moment. I was working on resiliency myself