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Quick question: is Facebook tracking what you articles read online on third party sites even when you are not logged in to Facebook? This can be done via cooki
by jgalt212 12y ago
Quick question: is Facebook tracking what you articles read online on third party sites even when you are not logged in to Facebook? This can be done via cookies, browser fingerprinting, and other methods so long as the third party site (e.g. Buzzfeed) is firing a FB tracking pixel?
- sp332 12y agoThey used to track you via cookies even when you were logged out. http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-to-stop-facebook-from-tracking-you-2012-9?op=1 http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-to-stop-facebook-fr... This lead to investigation by the FTC and a $15 billion class-action lawsuit.
- jgalt212 12y agoThanks for this. However, unless FB were directly sharing this sort of data outside of FB, this consent decree would seem to be very hard to enforce/police.