Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies – The Markup
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A new study looks at who is sending information about your online activity to Facebook
  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Yeah, that is the deal when you use a free service, you are selling your information in exchange for acces to a service.

    That being said, non facebook users are also tracked by thousands of companies.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Website owners can configure the pixel to track user website interactions such as searches or filling out a form, sending each action to Meta, even if the user doesn’t have an account on Facebook.

    Haven’t had a facebook account in over a decade, but I have no doubts that they still have loads of data about me.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Isn’t the tracker pixel really old news hy now?

      I’ve never even been to the Facebook website, at all, ever. When I first heard of it I knew it was bad news.

      Like you, I’m sure they still know lots about me

      • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I think “metal pixel” has just become what they call their trackers, not that its an actual pixel any longer. I could be wrong but I’ve heard references to the “meta pixel” for enough years after most companies switch to JS or other methods that I jumped to conclusions.

        • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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          10 months ago

          I so want to build a proxy that strips stuff like this, host it on a RPi with PiHole. Maybe a proxy could essentially apply a filtering CSS?

          Do enterprise level firwalls/IDS/IPS have some capability Ike this? Seems it would be the thing to do, ensuring some security against phishing.

          • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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            10 months ago

            You can find routers and what not with various PiHole like software. If you’re comfortable with network engineering then you can certainly write NACLs and the like to blacklist tracking networks.

            Stopping them at the browser level is also reasonably effective. EFF’s Privacy Badger is a must have extension for me.