Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers are panicking

Re:Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers a... by no_time on Friday July 16, 2021 @01:09AM (#27853200)

I always wanted to experiment with one of these but fortunately I managed to avoid them so far.

I wonder what would happen if you limited their bandwidth to a couple of kbps. Just enough to get the pings across but make any ad download excruciatingly slow. Or write some kind of DPI rule that drops packets to the internet above a certain size.

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Re:Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers a... by ElFitz on Saturday July 17, 2021 @04:13AM (#27864324)

People apparently mostly rely on PiHole & other similar options for that.

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Re:Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers a... by no_time on Saturday July 17, 2021 @05:41AM (#27864657)

Blocking outright is probably an edge case these devices will detect and handle differently in the following years as more and more people will be aware of the option.

That's why I think experimenting with more advanced sabotage will pay off in the long run.

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Re:Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers a... by ElFitz on Monday July 19, 2021 @08:28AM (#27881869)

Well, we always could simply open them up and remove the WiFi antenna. Unless it’s deeply integrated in some chip or another.

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