Facebook: Most sites allow their trackers, use their single sign-on, allow them access to traffic.

[TheBlackAdder]

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And this is a conscious choice by websites to allow such abdication of basic security practices.

Then, people wonder how Cambridge Analytica, foreign firms, et al have this information to leverage against us.

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[Miigwech]

1. I use "Web Root Security"

and it seems to work for me ... fly under the radar, I say! Recommended by my computer guy who works for the government.

[TheBlackAdder]

3. FB would still gets your IP address and they can cross-reference it with other web activity.

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Webroot Secure is more of an anti-malware and depending on the tests either does well or poorly. Since FB might be authorized or bypassed to gain certain access rights to get pages to load properly, it might not be blocked without user action.

They will still know your account accesses a particular website. The website has to stop using them.

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[msongs]

2. u can prevent that. logout of FB and clear your cookies nt

[TheBlackAdder]

5. I'm not logged into any FB, yet this DU page shows it contains facebook.net links.

[Lars39]

13. Do you have it turned off in your DU My Account?

[TheBlackAdder]

14. Thanks Lars39! That removed Facebook. The Google trackers are still there though.

[Skittles]

11. OR

just don't log into Fascist Facebook

[Ron Obvious]

4. Hear, hear. n/t

[Doremus]

6. I don't allow 3rd party cookies on my computer.

It prevents me from visiting some sites but I can usually find the article elsewhere. Webroot stopped one site from following me to another site the other day. It gave me a warning that the site was trying to follow me and put the kibosh on that. Hadn't seen that particular warning before.

[Jirel]

7. Simple.

Don't ever use Facebarf to log into other sites/apps.

Block cookies.

Clear your cache regularly.

Depending on your hardware and browser, you may have a number of options to install privacy apps.

There are a lot of ways to block this. Practice safe computing. It's not all that hard.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. Yet, if you are on this OP page, you will see the following if you do a 'View Page Source'

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<script&gt function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1";
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);

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[greyl]

12. ICYMI, DU has option to Display or Remove those social media links.

My Account > "Social media tabs on threads (Twitter, Google+, Facebook) > Display or Remove

[TheBlackAdder]

15. Thanks greyl! That removed Facebook. The Google trackers are still there though.

[greyl]

16. True, and Google+ doesn't exist anymore anyway, and this is where NoScript comes in handy

to block those two remaining scripts. (I presume you're not seeing Google Ads here)

[TheBlackAdder]

17. Yeah, but NoScript comes in after Google now knows my IP and can reverse associate my workstation.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. I run w/Firefox, uBlock, NoScript, EFF Privacy Badger & DuckDuckGo's Privacy Essentials.

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The problem is that many sites will not load correctly if these trackers are disabled.

While you can customize these plugins to be site specific, if the site removed FB altogether there would not be a need to have to babysit and monitor these settings all of the time.

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[blogslut]

10. True, but Cambridge Analytica took it much farther than cookies

They constructed a "survey" app that asked specific data questions, while simultaneously accessing the onsite data for every one of an FB participant's contacts.

As for that page code you posted downthread, that's just the fetch code, there are plenty of browser addons that can be modified to ignore that tag.