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Facebook Begins Tracking Non-Users Around the Internet (theverge.com)
Amar Toor, reporting for The Verge: Facebook will now display ads to web users who are not members of its social network, the company announced Thursday, in a bid to significantly expand its online ad network. As The Wall Street Journal reports, Facebook will use cookies, "like" buttons, and other plug-ins embedded on third-party sites to track members and non-members alike (Editor's note: link swapped with a non-paywall source). The company says it will be able to better target non-Facebook users and serve relevant ads to them, though its practices have come under criticism from regulators in Europe over privacy concerns. Facebook began displaying a banner notification at the top of its News Feed for users in Europe today, alerting them to its use of cookies as mandated under an EU directive.Mark Wilson of BetaNews adds that Facebook has outlined these changes in its cookies policy page. As part of which, the company is now allowing Facebook users to opt-out of the ad scheme by making changes to their Facebook settings. For users that don't have a Facebook account, they can opt-out through Digital Advertising Alliance in the United States and Canada, and the European Interactive Digital Adverting Alliance in Europe.
As anyone who's used RequestPolicy, NoScript or uBlock could tell you: any page with a Facebook like button is a tracker. Why, we even had an article about this... six years ago.
http://www.aboutads.info/ is the domain I found for Digital Advertising Alliance. Can anyone confirm?
Fuck YOU Facebook.
So, to Opt out of being tracked by you, I have to go to yet another place (which is not obvious) and sign up to not be tracked. Fuck you world which allows this shit to be acceptable.
1) Use Tor
2) Use Incognito Mode
3) Time to block cookies, delete cookies, and so on.
http://www.howtogeek.com/63721...
Did I mention ... FUCK YOU FACEBOOK!
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Whatever happened to their motto "don't be evil"?
Oh. wait, that wasn't them.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
will it block Facebook tracking ad shit?
When the wealth created by companies like Google, and FB(eventually?) is based upon advertising.
Advertising?!? Really?
Industrial Age
Information Age
Advertising Age
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
Seriously, facebook needs to go die in a fire, it contributes nothing useful to society, causes all sorts of mental health issues and invades privacy of people who want nothing to do with it.
The Stasi ain't got shit on Facebook.
Everyone here is already using Privacy Badger ( https://www.eff.org/privacybad... ) or similar right?
> So, to Opt out of being tracked by you,
You are confused. You can not opt out of being tracked. Google, facebook, etc, they are all the same -- none of these opt-out settings actually stop them from tracking you.
All you get by opting out is that they won't show you ads based on the data they have collected. But they are still collecting it and using it for other things like feeding it into profiling databases to target you in other ways - like what crap to send you in the mail and to resell to political campaigns for them to target you for phone calls. And if you ever stop opting out, they will use all the data they have been collecting to show you customized ads.
Opting out is just opting out of being reminded they are tracking you. The only real way to opt out is to block them with tools like adblock, privacy badger, requestpolicy, self-destructing cookies, noscript. decentraleyes, disconnect, etc. And the big one that few people talk about - use a VPN and change your exit node frequently so they can not track you by IP address.
All cookies and cache get cleared when I close my browser, and I use NoScript, AdBlock, and a number of other plug-ins that keep that crap out of my browser in the first place. Failbook can enjoy tracking my middle finger.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
I am totally shocked to see the word "begins" in the headline. Has anyone verified it's true? I thought the whole damn point of persuading websites into using "like" buttons and other widgety things, was that they were already extremely interested in people who don't directly use Facebook's website, so they wanted them to talk to those peoples' browsers on the side.
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You're welcome
we need an automatic cookie vacuum cleaner running every 30 seconds....
FB has smoothly transitioned from tracking to stalking. A big NOPE and goodbye to all my FB friends as I delete my account and never use it again.
Organization? You must be joking..
"they can opt-out through Digital Advertising Alliance..." Thanks, but I opted out with script and ad blockers a looong time ago.
/etc/hosts guys
some of my family and friends use facebook, so i tried it after a cousion goaded me in to signing on to a facebook account, i hate facebook, it is spammy and divisive and manipulative , i deleted my account and quit using facebook after only a few days, my friends have my phone number and email address so they can call or text or email me if they want to contact me, facebook can go to hell for all i care
i hope somebody finds zuckerberg and sucker-punches him in the nose for me
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
Zuckerberg has already made his billions... he doesn't really care what you do.
#DeleteChrome
Annoying content that you don't want to see and don't see if you block them. But you know that. Blocking Facebook Javascript might help a bit too.
Why do non-users have to Opt-Out of something they never signed up for? Shouldn't the correct method be that they have to opt-IN?!
"I see you're not using Facebook. Can I help steal your identity and expose you to phisning attempts now, too?"
and everybody still running Office 97 clicks.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Years as in like - years. You have to do a little research into who it is that you are blocking, because they aren't as open as Google.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
If you want money use a paywall
For some types of sites, particularly sites on which a user views only one or a few pages, a subscription cannot easily substitute for advertisements because very few people are willing to spend $4 for a whole month of access to a site just to read a single article. Selling access in granularity smaller than a month is impractical because of the transaction fees of both credit cards and Bitcoin, which tend to exceed 0.25 USD. Sites would need to band together and create a federated micropayment system. If only SatoshiPay supported more top-up options for viewers who don't already use Bitcoin...
Need browser feature that removes all cookies created by tab when tab is closed. Have ability to add exceptions for sites where you want the cookies to persist (like banking, slashdot, etc).
Does anything like that exist?
Incognito mode is great and all but I need exceptions to handful of sites where I want the cookies to persist.
You can't opt-out without enabling Javascript. Fuck that shit.
Are you out of your freaking mind?
1) Can hosts protect against shit served by the same server - NO
2) Can hosts protect multiple devices all at once - NO
3) Can hosts protect devices that don't allow access to hosts files - NO
4) Can hosts protect from spam - NO, mail gets delivered, not requested
5) Can hosts protect from inline javascript (one that is in the html body) - ding ding ding - we have a winner - NO
6) Can you manage and monitor in a single place all that is getting blocked and who makes the requests with hosts - NO, with hosts you can't even monitor who makes requests where
You are lying to all the gullible people by advertising hosts for something that they are not - the ultimate solution! Stop peddling them as a cure-all. They are just a single layer of the security onion, by far insufficient when standing alone.
The proper solution is content filtering proxy like provoxy, DOM blocker inside the browser (Bingo! - Adblock/uBlock, etc), HTTP request redirector rules on your router to the privoxy proxy, DNS request redirect on the local router, a local DNS server with static entries (based on the hosts file collections), and block and log rules on the local router for the traffic hitting any of the predefined hosts, single use VMs with browsers that have webrtc, HTML5 local storage, flash, java, Silverlight and so on disabled as well.
It's great that you are trying to raise awareness, but don't push hosts for what they are not.