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If you would like to contribute to monitoring Facebook, consider adding Ad Observer to your browser. It's non-intrusive. https://adobserver.org/ https://adobse
by ZunarJ5 4y ago
If you would like to contribute to monitoring Facebook, consider adding Ad Observer to your browser. It's non-intrusive.
https://adobserver.org/ https://adobserver.org/
AdObserver is a project of Cybersecurity for Democracy at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. This extension was originally developed by researchers from the Algorithmic Transparency Institute, Quartz, New York University, and the University of Grenoble. Technical advice was also provided by ProPublica, WhoTargetsMe, and The Globe And Mail.
- CommitSyn 4y agoI assume this will still work with uBlock Origin et al. activated?
- ZunarJ5 4y agoI assume so, but am not certain.
- ahahahahah 4y ago"If you think Cambridge Analytical was great, try this thing that's even better!"
- ahahahahah 4y agoTo be clear, people should not be using this thing that has no limits on what data it could be consuming. The CA thing people were upset about was that one user could give CA permission to read their FB data and that meant that CA had access to anything that that user had access to (like data that their friends shared with them). This is the same, without it even pretending to be limited by the restrictions that CA was limited by.
- ZunarJ5 4y agoThe code is open source on GitHub. https://github.com/CybersecurityForDemocracy/social-media-collector https://github.com/CybersecurityForDemocracy/social-media-co...