Can Facebook track half of all internet activity thanks to tracking?
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"The idea that one company can track more than half of all internet traffic is creepy and disturbing. But a new study exposes Meta's market power. Among them is the fact that shadow profiles are used to monitor non-members.
"https://www.michlfranken.de/kann-facebook-dank-tracking-die-halte-aller-internetaktivitaten-nachverfolgen/(In German)
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@ingolftopf , this is why it is important to block third party cookies and use extensions like Site Bleacher.
Many pages, especially those that use these Share buttons, usually give you these 'gifts' when you visit them and this extension deletes all these when you leave them, because there are not only third party cookies the problem. Not even avoided by the ad/tracker blocker.What Zuckerbot does is criminal and its services should certainly be avoided as much as possible, be it Meta, Instagram or Whatsapp, because it uses all kinds of tracking techniques with many different methods, not only the one mentioned in the article.
The problem is that there are all kinds of Front-ends, for Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, etc. But not for Facebook or Meta, in order to avoid a direct visit to this spyware, if you need to go to a link that someone provides to view an article.
Ah, using some alias service for your email is not a bad idea either, the address of your email account is a unique and easily traceable identifier on the network, to know in which sites you have an account and being able to profile you and even spy on you in these sites.
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@Catweazle This is another reason why open source/free software services are so good, because they don't have anything like this.
Like the messenger Jabber/XMPP and its platforms 'Movim' and 'Libervia'.
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@ingolftopf I like Jabber (have my account at CCC) and IRC.
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@ingolftopf , ehm, OpenSource not necesarly is more private or secure, it's a common error to belief this.
A lot of FOSS include APIs from Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, APIs which are also OSS.
Even GitHub itself is proprietary of Microsoft.
Since these large multinationals entered the world of OpenSource, it has been distorted a lot and it is not necessarily a guarantee of privacy. Android, for example, is OpenSource, as is Chromium, do you think that this is why they are private? Then it wouldn't be necessary for our defs to have to first pull all Google junk out of Chromium on every update.
The advantage in OpenSource is, that you can remove all this spyware, but only if you know how to do it, a normal user can't.As a social network, I use Lemmy and Raddle, they are very good alternatives to Reddit, before I also used Diaspora, which is another of the federated social networks, like Mastodon or Friendica, similar to Twitter, but I haven't been back there for a long time, due to lack of time at the time
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Also good to read about privacy
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/21/surveillance-social-media-police-microsoft-shadowdragon-kaseware/ -
@ingolftopf @Catweazle Hope this is the right place to post this.
Since when does Wikipedia (Wikimedia) has this tracker -
intake-analytics.wikimedia.org
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What analyzes are sent to the Foundation and why?Said tracker only appears when fb is in a tab and in another tab Wikipedia; so fb probably spies around on Wikipedia, or Wikimedia on Facebook? Facebook called alone does not give a Wikimeda tracker. Wikipedia alone neither. Are they probably linked with each other? Can someone please explain?
What kind of Tracker is this? intake-analytics.wikimedia.org
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