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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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