Facebook introduces another way to track you - Link History

PenguinTD, 5 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)

bobslaede, 5 months ago

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

Edit: havent tried with links from Facebook

Goopadrew, 5 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

Smoke, 5 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/

PenguinTD, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Thank you so much. :D

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

chemicalwonka, 5 months ago

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peter, 5 months ago

I’m surprised they weren’t doing that before

madmaurice, 5 months ago

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

Overzeetop, 5 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).

helenslunch, 5 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.

MummifiedClient5000, 5 months ago

Never use in-app browsers.

Radiant_sir_radiant, 5 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 share the information they’re collecting with you.

drolex, 5 months ago

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