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Re:Steve Wozniak on why he is leaving Facebook [video] by jonbarker on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @10:27AM (#16801606)
I wrote a batch script that writes to your hosts file a bunch of tracking URLs which are designed to take data from non users in order to enrich the 'social graph' of people who are either logged out or don't have FB accounts. Please ignore all the flask stuff for now; I plan to turn it into a SaaS app that writes to your host files and continually pushes new tracking URLs as I discover them: https://github.com/jtbarker/nofbtracking (btw the irony of me sharing this on a social site for programming is not lost on me).
Re:Steve Wozniak on why he is leaving Facebook [video] by the-dude on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:48AM (#16802251)
How is this different from the infamous http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm ?
Re:Steve Wozniak on why he is leaving Facebook [video] by jonbarker on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:56AM (#16802310)
More geared toward people who don't know how to write to hosts files.
Re:Steve Wozniak on why he is leaving Facebook [video] by the-dude on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @12:31PM (#16802647)
I find it disingenous if you claim "continually pushes new tracking URLs as I discover them" and not give the upstream credit.
Re:Steve Wozniak on why he is leaving Facebook [video] by jonbarker on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @12:59PM (#16802907)
This is fair, then my system will give credit. V1 of this list is here: https://qz.com/1234502/how-to-block-facebook-all-the-urls-yo...
Re:Steve Wozniak on why he is leaving Facebook [video] by udfalkso on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @10:35AM (#16801656)
That is a long list!