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I'm rarely using Facebook. I have an account, even some photos, but that's it. I may scroll the wall from time to time, usually readings arists posts and stuff,
by dzek69 7y ago
I'm rarely using Facebook. I have an account, even some photos, but that's it. I may scroll the wall from time to time, usually readings arists posts and stuff, as my friends are just like me - not posting anything about them anyway.
I'm a heavy user of privacy extensions. Currently using uBlock Origin + uMatrix. Most sites I run can't store anything (like cookies) or has access to scripting. I'm having an unique e-mail address for every service I register to (thanks to catch-all on own domain).
The above are available to everyone.
Additionally, I'm manually fixing broken websites, that can work without JS but refuses to - this however requires some skills.
When I really want to see the website that refuses to work with all these protections - I'm opening it in incognito session.
Result:
On my accounts (both fake and real) these Facebook advertisers lists are empty. The only list that's not empty is advertisers I decided I don't want to see ads from.
Of course I know this doesn't mean I'm anonymous and nobody knows anything about me. A lot of services know. These protections listed above aren't the silver bullet. They can still track me, they just won't tell me everything. Most of my data are stored with Google. I let them store my location history (they probably would do it anyway). They know all my searches. They know my entertaiment interests (Youtube history, likes, dislikes).
Well... You can track me too. I'm not using unique nicknames usually. You can find my contact info on the internet, on my website and other places. You can find my home address. You can know where I work.
But these were my choice. But I still have to remember I can't take that back, "Internet won't forget".
So yeah. You have the control. Just stop giving yourself away, protect yourself from automation. Share yourself with people offline. That's all.