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While this will probably help for people still tied to Facebook and related services, this unfortunately does little to stop their shadow profiling capabilities
by noirscape 2y ago
While this will probably help for people still tied to Facebook and related services, this unfortunately does little to stop their shadow profiling capabilities (which Facebook is known to do).
If you don't have a Facebook account, make sure to get an ad blocker[0] and activate the anti-annoyance, privacy and social widget lists in the settings. That should stop most of the passive site tracking that Facebook does. It's a much ruder way of stopping it, but to be frank, I'd argue that this form of tracking is inherently rude in and of itself (and therefore an adequate response.)
You should also absolutely install Consent-o-Matic[1] which automatically handles any cookie banners for you. The extension is unfortunately a necessity because most corporations (Facebook included) refuse to comply with the GDPR as it's written and make opting out unnecessarily difficult, with many hidden buttons you'd need to manually reject. Unlike other cookie form handlers, this one defaults to "most private" and will give you control again if it fails to reject the entire form. (This is unlike IDCAC, which just takes the shortest path to closing the form, even if it compromises your privacy to do so.)
Both of these extensions will of course also help against way more than just Facebook, and they're pretty much a default whenever I'm configuring a PC these days.
[0]: I can only recommend ublock origin, most other ones are running extortion schemes to show you "acceptable ads" anyway. https://ublockorigin.com/ https://ublockorigin.com/
[1]: https://consentomatic.au.dk/ https://consentomatic.au.dk/