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As I’m blocking completely google analytics, every Facebook domain and any analytics I can, I’m also disappearing for them. I don’t see them and they don’t see me!

Aww how cute. No, they can still track what you do. Remember Facebook Beacon and the outcry? It is now a reality. Facebook (oh excuse me, Meta) doesn’t back down after people vehemently react to Newsfeed, Beacon, Metaverse etc. Mark used to respond “Calm down. Breathe. We hear you.” before justifying what he did. That was when he was wet behind the ears — he doesn’t bother to do that anymore.

Facebook changed our world, our ideas of the word Friend, of the word Like, etc. Whether you want to or not, these platforms controlled by a few people will reshape society unless we build open source alternatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Beacon

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2533161/facebook-s-bea...

https://techcrunch.com/2008/09/18/is-beacon-back/



Beacon was client side. If you block access to facebook domains then they receive nothing.


If a company has your first name, last name or other information, they can send it to Facebook

Large corporations are buying this data, and even governments

https://www.fastcompany.com/90310803/here-are-the-data-broke...

https://www.propublica.org/article/everything-we-know-about-...

https://www.dli.tech.cornell.edu/post/facebook-and-google-ar...




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