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Your IP address, browser fingerprinting (despite the private browsing) and so on. There are just too many ways to identify you, and therein lies the problem.
by yumraj 6y ago
Your IP address, browser fingerprinting (despite the private browsing) and so on.
There are just too many ways to identify you, and therein lies the problem.
If this kind of thing is concerning to you, you have no option but to delete the FB account.
EDIT 1: Removed MAC address from my comment, which was incorrect as noted below.
EDIT 2: This is a test that is available from EFF to test your browser fingerprinting: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/
- dvt 6y agoFB also has "shadow" accounts, so even this may not be super helpful.
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- elisaado 6y agocan Facebook see your mac-address?
- jzzskijj 6y agoHow are merchants and Facebook getting your MAC address?
- ev1 6y agoFB app, and several merchants run .swf and java applets that request MAC locally and upload it. Also enumerate WebRTC for lan FB used to also websocket portscan your localhost + LAN on login from a fbsbx.com domain that also attempted to load native code/windows media player playlists/SWF/Java/Shockwave
- Zak 6y ago> FB used to also websocket portscan your localhost + LAN on login from a fbsbx.com domain that also attempted to load native code/windows media player playlists/SWF/Java/Shockwave That's straight up malware behavior.
- blaser-waffle 6y agoMan that's shady
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- Balgair 6y agoI love panopticlick, but hate it as well. They just tell you ' yup, you're screwed' but they don't tell you how to avoid being so. I get that there are likely some legal reasons, but the tool almost does more harm than good in this way. I don't want to have a browser fingerprint, tell me how to not have one.
- seba_dos1 6y agoAnd how do you even imagine it working without it doing even more harm by providing false sense of security?
- Zak 6y agoWhat legal reasons? The first that comes to mind is liability for bad advice, but people give computer privacy and security advice online all the time, and not all of it is good.
- w14 6y agoBrave. According to Panopticlick "your browser has a randomized fingerprint", and "Your browser fingerprint has been randomized among the 234,060 tested in the past 45 days. Although sophisticated adversaries may still able to track you to some extent, randomization provides a very strong protection against tracking companies trying to fingerprint your browser."
- fsflover 6y ago> I don't want to have a browser fingerprint, tell me how to not have one. Use Tor Browser.
- dillondoyle 6y agoSure but this is simpler than that. The merchant used their name, address, and email/phone to match to FB. Doesn't really matter what browser/cookies