Facebook introduces another way to track you - Link History

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• Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TL;DR: Meta has been tracking your every move on the web for years and probably won’t be stopping anytime soon. Now they’ve announced a feature to enable you use the information they’re collecting on you for yourself.

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  • drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How nice of them. I hope I can pay for this feature!

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• MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Never use in-app browsers.

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is only a problem if you use the Facebook app, which you obviously shouldn’t be doing.

  Facebook has a whole other method for desktop where they hijack the links other users post and insert their own tracking links.

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• chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Surprised Pikachu.jpg but not so surprised1000089044

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• peter@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m surprised they weren’t doing that before

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  • madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe they did, but now you can view that data too? It’s Facebook after all…

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    • Overzeetop@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I saw it the other day. I would bet a lot of money that the information was already stored. In fact, if their data group didn’t already store that information (link clicks to external websites) they should all be fired. This is just a way that you can find something that you’d previously looked at on facebook (which, oddly, may be the only site on the planet with a worse search function than reddit).

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• PenguinTD@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • I don’t install Facebook app on phone and find ways to remove/disable if come pre-installed.
  • Pretty much all social network platform are browsed with a container tab.
  • I look at the link before I click, if it’s super long or some google redirecting shit I just DDG and search the keywords myself. (is there a firefox extension that does this automatically?? removing the redirect/tracking link and convert back into normal link)

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  • Smoke@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    a firefox extension that does this automatically?? removing the redirect/tracking link and convert back into normal link)

    addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/utm-eraser/

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    • PenguinTD@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you so much. :D

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  • bobslaede@feddit.dk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In Firefox, at least desktop, you can right click, and copy link without tracking stuff.

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  • Goopadrew@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not sure if it automatically changes Facebook links, but the Facebook container extension is good at removing other tracking that Facebook does through news sites and such

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