Meta Will Now Let You Stop Instagram From Tracking You Across the Web (theverge.com) 9
Meta will now let you block Instagram from collecting your data across the apps and websites you visit. From a report: The company says that it's expanding the ability to disable this kind of tracking to Instagram, allowing you to review which businesses are sharing information with Meta, disconnect specific activity, or clear the collected information. You can now find this feature, called Activity Off-Meta Technologies, within the platform's Accounts Center. It was previously only available for Facebook. Meta receives information from third-party websites that use its business tools, such as the Meta Pixel, which tracks users on the web and allows Meta to serve personalized ads on its platforms.
but how do I stop them tracking me (Score:5, Insightful)
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And that is the trick: "you don't", at least not easily.
Forget about Facebook and large known ones. There are many small, hidden networks that will track you online and offline. This allows querying real information like home addresses, work locations, phone numbers, and of course the online and in store brick and mortar shopping profiles. (Why do you think they hook you up with the discount cards at Safeway?) And even if you don't sign up INITIAL + LAST NAME + ZIP is unique id for over 90% of the people. (
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(That is why they ask for the zip codes at the register)
This is why I always use a different zip code.
Oh, sure they will (Score:4, Insightful)
Oh cool, so they stopped? Yeah, great. Great! Just one thing:
They trust me
dumb fucks
– MZ
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My family was bemused when I never signed up for Fuckbook, and I explained their security/privacy issues. One day my son tried to get me to sign up for Instagram. I said "no". He said "why?". I said "don't you know who owns IG?"
A while back I was ready to get into VR. I was set to buy one of the least expensive and best reviewed sets on the market, and then I saw an article on /. that Facebukk was buying Quest.
I said, "Well, shit."
They'll have Facebook track you instead. (Score:3)
See? It's not Instagram tracking you now. We did what we said.
have you tried not stalking as the default? (Score:3, Funny)
I mean sure, she was wearing a short skirt and didn't run pihole to stop your stalking and didn't ask her friends and family and their friends and family at least 200 associations out to do the same, but have you ever considiered that you just shouldn't go around stalking people just because they exist? It's creepy. I have been assured that corporations are people, so maybe they shouldn't be allowed to sit outside, hiding in the bushes, touching their, uh, pocketbooks, and grunting while "maximizing shareholder revenue".
Ah yes... (Score:2)
Facecrook....errr sorry, Meta(stasize), a company famous the world over for being trustworthy! You'll find no other example of corporate cancer more worthy of your implicit trust and faith than them!
Well, maybe Alphabet. Hey, they said do no harm remember? (Back when they weren't the 900lb gorilla with the world's most efficient data vacuum.) They must be trustworthy too!