Re:With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals
by sobani on Thursday December 20, 2018 @08:32AM
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And the GDPR might cause less tracking through like buttons: "the operator of a website embedding [...] the Facebook Like button, which causes the collection and transmission of the users’ personal data, is jointly responsible for that stage of the data processing" -- Advocate General Bobek [0] (emphasis mine)
[0] https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/201...
Re:With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals
by ams6110 on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:09PM
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I have all of Facebook's domains routed to 0.0.0.0 in my hosts file. So their "like" buttons don't even appear for me.
Re:With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals
by titanomachy on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:56AM
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I think if you stay logged out of Facebook and use a VPN it should be hard for them to figure it out. Even better, use Facebook only in incognito.
Re:With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals
by _underflow_ on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:33PM
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Still wouldn't stop 1x1 pixel image tracking, which I can only assume they're doing alongside other cookie syncing techniques.
Your engagement might be low -- mine is almost zero -- but you are still a source of data even if a reduced one. I am not sure even disabling Javascript altogether will help; I am pretty sure they fall back to techniques like your IP history, known devices from which you logged in and few other such techniques.
My gut feeling is they are holding on very tight to their personally identifiable information harvesting practice and won't let go of it anytime soon. Hope I am wrong.