How to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta

Re:How to change your settings to make yourself less valuabl... by aqueueaqueue on Monday February 24, 2025 @11:56PM (#43168343)

I changed a setting a decade ago to make myself less valuable to Facebook and that was close my account.

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Re:How to change your settings to make yourself less valuabl... by bestouff on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @01:10AM (#43168742)

Unfortunately it's not sufficient. Facebook tracks you from bits of js embedded in many (you have no idea) pages you visit nowadays.

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Re:How to change your settings to make yourself less valuabl... by dylan604 on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @01:43AM (#43168933)

Only if you're letting it run on your machine. You don't have to allow it. You being the royal you here

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Re:How to change your settings to make yourself less valuabl... by pwdisswordfishz on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @03:22AM (#43169460)

The royal "you" is "Your Majesty".

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Re:How to change your settings to make yourself less valuabl... by aqueueaqueue on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @01:40AM (#43168909)

Yeah you remind me to change my dns on all devices :) definitely cat and mouse

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Re:How to change your settings to make yourself less valuabl... by KaiserPro on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @05:04AM (#43170047)

meta is really hard to block effectivly.

I once tried to block the app from running on my home network, as an experiment.

Blocking the DNS didn't work, and even when I blackholed the various ASNs to make the route not work, I still managed to get the app to work.

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Re:How to change your settings to make yourself less valuabl... by aqueueaqueue on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @03:43PM (#43177145)

I mean block trackers added on other sites bundles that need to download js to do anything.

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Re:How to change your settings to make yourself less valuabl... by KaiserPro on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @05:31AM (#43182499)

Yeah you can stop the JS from loading if you have an well maintained plugin that specialises in it (or no-script that nukes all JS from orbit)

but trying to stop Instgram/facebook apps connecting is a whole another level of difficulty.

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Re:How to change your settings to make yourself less valuabl... by chii on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @02:02AM (#43169046)

closing an account is a datapoint.

What i do is completely ignore facebook, and the rest of their properties (including whatsapp now).

ublock origin to block out the social media links/badges, and make sure to never visit facebook site directly.

Hopefully, what this means is that my "account" and whatever they identify as me, looks like an inactive user with zero potential to be advertised to.

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Re:How to change your settings to make yourself less valuabl... by raaron773 on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @02:48AM (#43169296)

I remember in 2012-13 facebook didnt even have a delete account option only deactivate. I dug deep enough to stumble across a facebook delete link in their community support or something. I made sure to change all my details and then i used that link to delete my account. Used my friends account to verify if it was actually deleted or not.

Never visited facebook since. Its great!

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Re:How to change your settings to make yourself less valuabl... by Kostchei on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @05:05AM (#43170053)

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