How does Facebook know which websites you visit ?

tombrr said:
I'm with @ubersonic here, it's a very useful advert isn't it? So whats the _real_ problem here?
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Some people don't want their browsing history or unique advertising profile passed around from company to company. Seems more akin to common sense to me but if a 12% discount that you could easily get via other means is worth it to people, that choice is also available.
 
ubersonic said:
Like with most "but muh privacy" arguments, don't do crime, won't have a problem.
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People who don't fight for privacy are the least deserving of it and the stance you have taken is incredibly bad.

It's not just about the act gross overreach in the collection of data (which is egregious in itself), it's the fact that these corporations cannot be trusted to keep the information they harvest secure. How many data breaches have their been in recent years where people's personal information was leaked? Have we forgotten about the Equifax breach? What about Cambridge Analytica? These corporations use the information they harvest to further their own agendas, whether nefarious or just following a morally questionable profit motive.

It is bad and we should all care about the sheer volume of information these corporations are collecting.
 
Its inconvenient on first look at turning off these account logins as it looks like I need to turn them all off or none. With most accounts like strava, spotify, imgur, soundcloud etc, I don't care if my user data about what i listen to or where I exercise is passed around. I don't want to go to the effort of finding friends and setting up new accounts due to turning off auto facebook login.

I would care if some of my user data was used against me in the future though, and then disabling or deleting the facebook account would be the best option I guess.
 
It's all perfectly legal to do this, pretty much every single website will track you unless you tell them otherwise. Most likely even OcUK are tracking you also to try and get you to buy stuff.

If it really bothers you, just use Private browsing mode...

I for one welcome letting ISP's etc know about what is being looked at online due to how it can help with security and crime issues. If it means seeing adverts for products that I've looked at or similar for a potentially safer place then so be it. It's not going to affect my mood or offend me in anyway and I don't see why other people wouldn't think the same..

If the Ads are irrelevant or unsuitable, just report them and they will be removed and will improve and become less "annoying"
 
uBlock Origin and continuously changing VPN at the (home) network level. No Facebook Pixel for me, and no tracking by my ISP.
 
Theophany said:
People who don't fight for privacy are the least deserving of it and the stance you have taken is incredibly bad.

It's not just about the act gross overreach in the collection of data (which is egregious in itself), it's the fact that these corporations cannot be trusted to keep the information they harvest secure. How many data breaches have their been in recent years where people's personal information was leaked? Have we forgotten about the Equifax breach? What about Cambridge Analytica? These corporations use the information they harvest to further their own agendas, whether nefarious or just following a morally questionable profit motive.

It is bad and we should all care about the sheer volume of information these corporations are collecting.
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It is all fun and games until the data says you've committed a crime (when you haven't) - "nothing to fear if you haven't done anything wrong" is a short sighted perspective.
 
I use duckduck go as default browser in opera (mobile) and firefox (PC), both browsers set delete everything when closed down with few basic default settings.

It's a bit of a pain having to log back into stuff, like forums for example, but it's a burden I have to accept.

I'll occasionally use google search, as the results are better to be fair, but reboot the browser afterwards.
 
Every page on OCUK Website has this code built into it - https://connect.facebook.net/signals/config/566386483572596?v=2.9.18&r=stable

This is the Developer Tools Page in Chrome on the OCUK Main Page and it has 6 references to Facebook.
Every page I went to had the a similar amount of Facebook code.
I presume most sites have the same code wrote into them!!

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FoxEye said:
@SexyGreyFox Just about every page on the net is now plugged into multiple "analytics" and tracking sites.

It's crazy.
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I'm basically explaining to the OP why and how it happens.
I don't know how talking about something ends up on Facebook though (obviously Google is listening).
I was talking to my mate last week (social distancing) about decent bicycle locks and by the time I got in there was one on my Timeline which I screen grabbed for him.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
I'm basically explaining to the OP why and how it happens.
I don't know how talking about something ends up on Facebook though (obviously Google is listening).
I was talking to my mate last week (social distancing) about decent bicycle locks and by the time I got in there was one on my Timeline which I screen grabbed for him.
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Information is traded, so my guess would be that's what happened - Google trading the information to Facebook. There's so much money and power in manipulating people that information on people is a valuable commodity. Or maybe Facebook stole it. So few companies give a damn about privacy that vast amounts of the information they collect about about people leaks all over the place and a company could probably get away with stealing loads of it. But my money is on a trade.
 
chaparral said:
For some reason i feel that is so wrong..

They should have a button on the website you need to click to agree for them to be able to do stuff like this...
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The button you click on to consent is the register button on Facebook. Once you're in, they'll suck up as much data on you as they can.

The fact that so much data harvesting goes on by these big corporations shows just what a waste of time the GDPR was.
 
Only same as when my mom was looking on ebay at handbags on her tablet. Then it showing on my pc even though none of the accounts are linked.
 
Redrum said:
The button you click on to consent is the register button on Facebook. Once you're in, they'll suck up as much data on you as they can.

The fact that so much data harvesting goes on by these big corporations shows just what a waste of time the GDPR was.
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You don't even need to register on Facebook. You don't even need to have ever visited Facebook's website. Facebook will spy on you as much as possible anyway because Facebook has spy code hidden on a vast multitude of sites. It's common enough to be routine. If you don't have a Facebook account you won't see the tragetted adverts on your Facebook account (obviously), but Facebook is still gathering data on you and still using that data to try to manipulate you or selling it to organisations who will use it to try to manipulate you. Not having a Facebook account just makes it slightly harder for them to be sure of identifying you personally, but that's just a matter of gathering enough data.

It's quite an eye-opener if you install software in your browser that tells you what sources are running scripts on your PC when you access a webpage. It's now the norm for every page to be running scripts from at least one spying service. Gathering data on people is a very big business nowadays, with a level of surveillance and manipulation of people that dictators only dreamed of. The simplest examples are advertising and massive promotion of confirmation bias by showing people only stuff like stuff they've already seen. The more data they gather on you, the stronger they promote confirmation bias. It's part of the reason for the increasing polarisation of politics.
 
Redrum said:
The button you click on to consent is the register button on Facebook. Once you're in, they'll suck up as much data on you as they can.

The fact that so much data harvesting goes on by these big corporations shows just what a waste of time the GDPR was.
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You don't have to be on Facebook, read my post above where Facebook is in the code of OCUK and millions of other sites.

Also pretty sure that the vast majority of sites I regularly visit had a pop up you had to click about GDPR before entering a site and then you didn't need to click it again.
 
foster grant said:
Settings > Your Facebook Information then click on Off-Facebook Activity you can change a setting or two in there :)
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Pho said:
They're using Facebook Pixel for analytics, when the tracking code is ran by the website it's loaded from Facebook's servers who are able to correlate your logged in Facebook session to the request.

Facebook must be harvesting insane amounts of user activity data, most sites on the net have some sort of Facebook "like" script or something on them.
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That's not it. It's simply a Facebook privacy setting buried deep in the profile settings called "Off Facebook Activity". It logs all the webpages you visit whilst you have a Facebook tab open.
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There's no magic. It's simply a Facebook setting on by default.
 
Django x2 said:
That's not it. It's simply a Facebook privacy setting buried deep in the profile settings called "Off Facebook Activity". It logs all the webpages you visit whilst you have a Facebook tab open.

There's no magic. It's simply a Facebook setting on by default.
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Oh right didn't know that.

I don't use Facebook to be fair, not for privacy/paranoid reasons but because I have nothing interesting to post :D.
 
Pho said:
Oh right didn't know that.

I don't use Facebook to be fair, not for privacy/paranoid reasons but because I have nothing interesting to post :D.
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Has said above on post 49, Facebook code is built into OCUK and millions of other sites.
You don't have to have Facebook.
 
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