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If you have a Facebook account and are curious what other apps and websites are sending data about you to Facebook, check out this link: https://www.facebook.c
by rococode 7y ago
If you have a Facebook account and are curious what other apps and websites are sending data about you to Facebook, check out this link:
https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/activity_list https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/activity_list
(click the area with the various app & website icons to expand into a more detailed view)
I was pretty surprised the first time I came across that list, there are a lot of apps on there that I never did a Facebook login with. For example right now I see that a map app I downloaded when I was travelling last year but only opened once or twice has sent 395 "interactions", the latest of which was 3 days ago. Actually, I should probably delete that now haha. Also, I'm using Firefox with the Facebook container, Privacy Badger, and uBlock Origin, and there are still many websites listed.
- koyote 7y agoSo I do not have facebook installed on my phone but I do have instagram and whatsapp. A large amount of phone apps seem to appear in that list. I guess Whatsapp/Instagram creates a fingerprint of my device and then uses that for tracking?
- daemonspudguy 7y agoThey are both owned by Facebook, so yes
- theferalrobot 7y agoI believe that is in fact the case. I removed all Facebook owned apps from my phone a few weeks ago and I stopped seeing reports show up there. Experimentally, it seems like an uninstall disassociates the ID from your facebook account. That doesn’t mean facebook stopped getting those reports, only that they are no longer associating them with my account.
- jmiserez 7y agoYou can disable it under: More Options -> Manage Future Activity: https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/future_activity https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/future_activi...