@noellemitchell for those who are inclined, #pihole lets you block Facebook entirely.

@noellemitchell "Facebook promises to delete the Link History it’s created for you within 90 days if you turn the setting off." That is super rich considering at a recent deposition, two distinguished engineers testified that no one at Facebook even knows all the systems a users data is stored in and it would be a monumental effort to find it all.

@noellemitchell worst parts of this
- Gizmodo wants me to grant it, and 700+ of it's partners the right to track my ass with cookies
- The thought of trying to explain to my family why the Meta link tracking thing is bad.... I just can't . I can just hear the responses: "So? I got nothing to hide!"

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You know those Search Suggestions ...

@noellemitchell I used to build systems like these as customer service, diagnostic, and performance analysis tools. Here's a really early one from one of the earliest versions of my Python web framework, WebCore.

The "alt text" explains the images quite a bit. Later versions could "watch live" (like Remote Desktop!) by user or specific session to aid in live support. Chains of requests leading to a bug could be replayed in development, to aid in reproduction, correction, and regression testing.

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What happened to the days of focus groups as proxies for usability.

@noellemitchell And this is why EVERYBODY must use noscript and adblockers - and avoid facebook and anything Meta like the plague. Because thats what it is. A plague.

@noellemitchell the alert has been put out about Facebook meta-and TikTok for a couple years now. They are all a huge danger. It’s not just creepy, it’s downright damn dangerous ⚠️

@noellemitchell invasive to the nth degree.

@noellemitchell Noelle, please consider adding #Threads to the hashtags in this post.

@noellemitchell And that is just another reason I have a dedicated browser for FB and Insta. I do nothing else with that browser. And I don't have FB or Insta apps on my phone, nor do I visit their sites with my phone. And I'm going to try real hard to delete my accounts this year.

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Is there no way to stop the fiendish tapeworm named Zuckerberg from attaching itself to our brains?

@noellemitchell The TikTok app does the same. I haven't used meta services for 10 years (partly because they use hate as a business model) and I don't use the TikTok app either

@noellemitchell 😡

@noellemitchell
You should look up the connections between Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk.
Look up Palantir which was started by Thiel and how it is used by police and intelligence agencies. Don't touch anything connected with Palantir, Peter Thiel, Zuck or Elon.

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#Facebook hat v kurzem neue Einstellung f "#Linkverlauf" eingeführt, mit d ein spezieller Speicher für alle Links angelegt wird, auf d Sie i d mobilen #App klicken. Nutzer können sich dagegen entscheiden,aber Linkverlauf ist standardmäßig aktiviert, Daten werden für gezielte Werbung verwendet. Während Gesetzgeber technische Vorschriften einführt & #Apple & #Google Datenschutzbestimmungen verschärfen, sucht #Meta nach neuen Wegen, um sein Imperium des Datensammelns zu erhalten.

@noellemitchell Why FB and Tiktok are both domain and IP blocked on my network. There is an internal proxy server available that does allow access if needed. Lets me still use it in a separate browser profile without the risks.

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I don't have Facebook, Instagram nor WhatsApp on my phone. I've also enabled DuckDuckGo App Tracking Protection. Does that mean I'm safe from Meta's "Link History" and Metapixel tracking?

@noellemitchell @mxtthxw for anyone who is reading this, please make sure you're using #Firefox with #uBlock Origin and also if you're up for the learning curve, #LibRedirect, though that's not really helpful if you have to log in.

I would also like to suggest trying to migrate over to #PixelFed as an #Instagram replacement and #Friendica as a #Facebook replacement. It took me years to start using my #Mastodon account, the first step is creating it.

If you build it, they will come!

@noellemitchell we found the privacy hacking security threat it is coming from within the premises 🙄

@noellemitchell Fortunately on iOS you can turn on external browsing in Messenger.

@noellemitchell I feel icky just by reading the toot 🤮

@noellemitchell Yet people continue to use Meta platforms. :facepalm:

@noellemitchell This is why if you need to use facebook, don't use the app.
Use a web-browser app. Ideally one that tracks less, such as Mozilla Firefox.

On android Firefox you can even install extensions like uBlock Origin for extra ad-blocking and tracking protection.

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If people were wise, they would never (ever) install any Meta apps onto their devices.

@noellemitchell I thought recalled them doing the same thing on desktop browsers nearly a decade ago, and since then I've assumed they were definitely doing that on mobile, since everyone just kind of always has a phone on them and turned on at all times, with things like GPS chips and various sensors they can use to get more percise information about where exactly you are, what you're doing, who's with you, etc.

@noellemitchell why don't they just rebrand as Evil.Inc and be done with it.

@noellemitchell But all this is to improve the service to users and provide them with the most useful information to meet their needs.
Isn't it?
Or perhaps?
I wouldn't join Facebook if I were you. I didn't.
Safer.
Surely.

@noellemitchell that's basically spyware

@noellemitchell sadly not something new. TikTok and Facebook were already caught red-handed doing basicly the same 1.5 years ago

https://krausefx.com/blog/announcing-inappbrowsercom-see-what-javascript-commands-get-executed-in-an-in-app-browser

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I never ever trusted FACEBOOK and was never a member.

@noellemitchell
Don't use it.

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Dumb question: how does this stuff get allowed into the App Store?

If a smol developer slipped a keylogger into an app, wouldn’t that get shut down immediately?

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Some details on how it is done may be, but the overall information that FB and TT spies on people beyond their own apps and platforms is not exactly news.

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It really is better not to use the FB spying system as there are other ways to keep in touch with people.

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The simple and only solution? Delete facebook.

@noellemitchell facebook lite allowed you to bypass this as it did not had the integrated browser, but they removed both facebook lite and messenger lite back in august.

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IMHO Meta Inc. - parent company of who knows what.. is at war w. Pvtin. * banned from RU. go chew on that. . I guess.

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Time to uninstall the Facebook app!

@noellemitchell At one time I used Facebook and Twitter, now I have to ask did I quit Meta and X, becasue I knew their name change would suck?

@noellemitchell This is my "I am not surprised face"