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Privacy practices of "Swipe Left: Privacy Practices of Online Dating Apps": After clicking on this article, Google, Facebook and LinkedIn will know that you ar

by dl904 9y ago

Privacy practices of "Swipe Left: Privacy Practices of Online Dating Apps": After clicking on this article, Google, Facebook and LinkedIn will know that you are interested in the privacy practices of online dating apps. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use: Facebook collects user data to create profiles that... Google... LinkedIn... Data Retention: Facebook... . . --Sending HTTP requests to Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn results in the collection of this metadata and possibly data by your national and possibly foreign government surveillance organizations... ---Data retention by your national surveillance organization...:

untog 9y ago
How will Facebook know I viewed a page which has no FB tracking on it? I didn't see a Like button.
- dl904 9y ago
  The website is sending out a request to connect.facebook.net As a rough estimate, maybe 90% of the top 10,000 websites will send out (multiple) HTTP(S) requests to Google and Facebook from your browser.
ozpri 9y ago
I'm sure this is true, but what if you leverage something like PiHole and browser extensions like Privacy badger or uBlock? Surely, these offer some tangible protection against this kind of sharing?
- rhizome 9y ago
  "Did you see what their browser was wearing? No wonder."