This s now turning ridiculous
Scroll to your Facebook settings page and there you will see ‘ your offline information’
Facebook now tracks you even if you are not using it
Sites like Menulog , udemy, cashrewards send your information to Facebook and Fb clearly states these website send your info to fb and it is not fb pulling the info
Good bye to personal security and data security
Damn, thought I were "the voice"
You're not gonna sit in silence?
We're not gonna live with fear
This is your fault for joining Cashrewards using your Facebook login. Otherwise how would Cashrewards know how to link your account with the appropriate FB account?
Never use the login with Facebook option.
That is good advice but FB can also link the data to you in other ways. For example, my Plex activity shows up in FB. How does it do that? I only ever sign-in to Plex with an email account (through a burner email that has no ties to me) and yet they still sell my data to Facebook.
I'm just saying that if FB wants the data, they'll get it.
It's not from joning with a Facebook login, that connects your account explicitly to Facebook and you can see that via a different setting. The "off-Facebook information" is data harvested outside of Facebook through various tracking and fingerprinting technologies. All of these websites eBay, Amazon, Cashrewards, Menulog etc have an embedded tracking/analytics. The hidden analytic engine notifies Facebook when anyone goes to that page and sends a bunch of metadata (whether you are a Facebook member or not!). Facebook can use that data for whatever, but it becomes a lot more powerful to them if they can match it to an actual person. So Facebook uses the metadata to trace peoples movements around the web. If you are logged into Facebook while you visit the sites this is the usual way Facebook can match you as you will have a tracking cookie that the analytic engine will recognise.
But! You don't even need to be logged into Facebook, remember they still get the data regardless and will do their best to match it to a person. They can use various other fingerprinting learning techniques (such as your operating system, browser type, browser version) to differentiate and recognise individuals. Even if you turn off "off-facebook activity" on your Facebook account, it won't stop the data harvesting, it only says something like "We will no longer match the received data to your account."
The only way to stop this is at the source. Browser add-ons like Disconnect.me stop those hidden analytic, social and advertising tracking requests and disconnect has a cool feature that tells you how many of each type were blocked. On some websites the number is over 100.
Do people not understand the basic concepts of data selling?
BUT I USED INCOGNITO!!!!1!
I checked mine;
It shows 470 sites that have shared data
Oldest in the list was from June 2019
majority are from the last month or so
I don't routinely use FB to log into pages (maybe up to five times)
I'd take a stab that it is just about any page that is open at the same time as FB.
How else are they going to give me 'targeted ads'?
Just for interest, I cleared the history and then turned off future activity, so I will try and remember to check again in a while to see what happens
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Yes ive recently done this too, there are instructions circulating online on how to do this. Hoping it stops the data sharing.
Google/Gmail is doing this too.
Did you honestly think you are earning free money for zero return for the technology providers? Welcome to the world of consumer data.
Just checked mine,
This is a summary of the 1,680 apps and websites that have shared your activity.
Now I feel dirty. I even had "health.gov.au" in there, just from researching the Coronavirus app a few days ago, from moderating the related posts here.
You got zucked!
Imagine actually using Facebook 😂🤣
The money in this cash back industry is your data (your details, what where when you buy etc) , more than the actual commission from your spend.
"Good bye to personal security and data security.."
Why not say goodbye to facetwit instead?
Found this VERY interesting interview on surveillance capitalism (not as boring as it sounds and fairly short)
Fairly short? 50 minutes…
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Unless you're a millennial…yes. :)
1,380 apps and websites. A dozen government websites in that mix.
Firefox has a nifty little add-on called Facebook Container which blocks your activity from being sent to Facebook. As per it's intro "The Facebook buttons that appear on shopping, news and other sites contain trackers which tell Facebook where you've been on the Web. Even if you never use these buttons to like or share, the trackers can still collect data about your browsing. Facebook Container blocks these trackers."
Interestingly there are no trackers detected on this page :-) .
Sounds like you care about privacy. Then you should consider quitting Facebook. Facebook is the antithesis of privacy and their tentacles are spread far and wide across websites. Then install a few browser extensions including unlock origin, decentraleyes.
I never sign in anywhere with FB logon. I’ve been FB free since August. I joined in 2007. No loss. I was on there to use Marketplace a few months ago. Really in six months FB has not moved forward and people are still whinnying about the same stuff
Remember, you are the product.