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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Facebook introduces another way to track you - Link History

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago
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Facebook introduces another way to track you - Link History | Malwarebytes
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Facebook has announced it will roll out a new option called Link History to mobile users around the world. What does that mean?
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  • Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org
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    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 share the information they’re collecting with you.

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

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    Never use in-app browsers.

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    deleted by creator

  • Chemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Surprised Pikachu.jpg but not so surprised1000089044

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    I’m surprised they weren’t doing that before

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

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

      https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/utm-eraser/

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        Thank you so much. :D

        edit: I ended up using this one that has more users. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-fbclid-and-utm

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

      Edit: havent tried with links from Facebook

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