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Facebook now adds fbclid query string to URLs, busting CloudFlare’s cache

• mrmondo 8y ago
  Another dodgy move by Facebook, this time not only tracking people (potentially without their consent) but also disrupting internet traffic.
• mrmondo 8y ago
  From the thread: "Facebook is doing this in response to Apple’s third-party cookie tracking protection that prevents FB from tracking users just by cookies/embeds, see https://webkit.org/blog/8311/intelligent-tracking-prevention-2-0/ https://webkit.org/blog/8311/intelligent-tracking-prevention... 11. With fbclid, Facebook no longer needs to rely on tracking cookies to track users across websites."
• mockindignant 8y ago
  What is the best way to deal with this as an end user? I see there is a Firefox plugin here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nofbclid/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nofbclid/ But perhaps it is better to deal with at a lower level, like on the firewall. Any advice would be welcome.
  • mrmondo 8y ago
    Good find, the source is here: https://github.com/nboughton/nofbclid/blob/master/nofbclid.js https://github.com/nboughton/nofbclid/blob/master/nofbclid.j...
    • mockindignant 8y ago
      I found a slightly better one that also blocks google UTM trackers as well, here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/utm-tracking-token-stripper/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/utm-tracking-... and source here: https://github.com/jparise/chrome-utm-stripper https://github.com/jparise/chrome-utm-stripper
      • mrmondo 8y ago
        I happen to already be using that one, nice to see they've added Facebook tracking removal to it as well!