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Re:Facebook furious at FTC after agency proposes ban on mone... by reaperducer on Thursday May 04, 2023 @01:02PM (#35818652)
He isn’t forcing you to use Facebook.

You don't have to actually use Facebook in order to have your privacy violated by Facebook.

This came out years ago in Congressional hearings. It's also why lots of people who never had Facebook accounts got privacy-violation money from Facebook — it created profiles of people in the backgrounds of photos.

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Re:Facebook furious at FTC after agency proposes ban on mone... by taauji on Friday May 05, 2023 @12:50AM (#35825326)
Yes Ghost profiles is what people used to refer it to.

Browser fingerprinting is how they are able to track you across the internet despite having no connection with facebook.

One way to fix this to stop your PC from communicating with any facebook servers.

- Firefox provides an extension for this.

There must be other methods that I am not aware of but if anybody knows.

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