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The Zuck suck is in full swing.

cross-posted from: social.fossware.space/post/123876

In the few short hours since I started using , has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like “headphone status” and “screen density.”

Trackers, trackers and ol’ Zucc’s roboface galore.

harry_h0udini911 ,

Surely, a cage match must take place to put an end to Zuckingberg reign.

jdevsd ,

Ars Technica just covered this too.

Edit: link

stormageddon ,

Damn, just straight up stealing other people’s content. Very cool

Original post: writing.exchange/@kreig/110664764474921792

Original poster: @kreig

LBRABO ,

Full spy mode

donut4ever ,
@donut4ever@lemmy.world avatar

Which app is displaying all of this info?

MaxVoltage ,
@MaxVoltage@lemmy.world avatar

Yes how do you use dickdickgo to do this?

Dream_state ,

On the latest Android version, go into the browser settings on Duck and scroll down 👍

DivergentHarmonics , (edited )

I guess it means the DuckDuckGo Browser?
… Answer: Yes! Other comment in this same thread: sopuli.xyz/comment/864701
@donut4ever @MaxVoltage

tracyspcy ,
@tracyspcy@lemmy.ml avatar

lol such app should have disclaimer similar to cigarettes packs

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

I mean… many of those are reasonable? I don’t see how checking the available device memory, screen resolution, screen rotation, etc are bad since the app could use them to improve the experience (lower RAM = don’t preload as many posts, lower screen resolution = load smaller images, etc)

sapient_cogbag ,
@sapient_cogbag@infosec.pub avatar

This is obviously not the case when your client could just directly request things within it’s resource limits.

Seriously, why would you give Meta the benefit of the doubt? These are just more datapoints to profile and analyze users.

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

These are just more datapoints to profile and analyze users.

I’m just being realistic. Seeing it in DuckDuckGo just means the app has requested that data - they don’t actually know exactly how it’s used. Just seeing that the data is loaded by the app doesn’t mean anything. So far, nobody has actually been able to prove that any of this data is used for profiling users. Analyzing network traffic isn’t too difficult so there’d likely be proof by now if it was actually happening (like Wireshark captures).

sapient_cogbag ,
@sapient_cogbag@infosec.pub avatar

Profiling happens on the server end, but the unique identification can happen either on the server end or the client end or both.

And it’s Meta. Their entire organisation is dedicated to manipulation, data collection, etc. - hell, they might do the profiling inside the app and only send results. What’s “realistic” is expecting them to spy on you, not giving an organisation like them any benefit of the doubt!

pup_atlas ,

There is, how do you think Cambridge Analytica did it. They’ve literally already been sued over this, it’s been confirmed they are collecting and using this data against users.

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Cambridge Analytica violated the developer terms of service and scraped data via the Graph API, which was free to use. That’s why the API is extremely locked down now. upvote.au/comment/105473

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

I mean… many of those are reasonable? I don’t see how checking the available device memory, screen resolution, screen rotation, etc are bad.

pup_atlas ,

Device fingerprinting. Even with unique identifiers turned off, if you have enough of these seemingly innocuous data points, you can track individual users across sites and apps, even without any other information. They can use this to profile you, and manipulate you.

LordDemecrius83 ,
@LordDemecrius83@lemmy.world avatar

What’s next? Zucc is gonna ask for my dick size?

Gork ,

Well, yeah.

CanadaPlus ,

I bet that’s unironically gold for certain advertisers.

SexWithSilverWolf ,

Knowing fuckerberg, it’s a possibility

LordDemecrius83 , (edited )
@LordDemecrius83@lemmy.world avatar

Sees username

I just can’t escape THAT sub, can I?

SexWithSilverWolf ,

You cannot escape the buddy

nodimetotie ,

He can probably already predict it from other data with 99% accuracy

Facebook ,

Hi there, and thanks for trying Threads!

While this may look alarming, it’s nothing to be concerned about. Sometimes “privacy” focused browsers and apps can be a little overzealous.

We are taking our mandate to be a responsible member of the fediverse seriously, and part of that is building trust. We have no intention of abusing your data, nor the trust you place in us.

Thanks for helping us blaze this trail together!

PotjiePig ,

Get fucked.

Killer ,

It’s a joke account

myself ,

*Get zucked.

Skyrkazm ,

Country, last name, and state. As well as my location directly basically. Nothing to be concerned about. Sure. Not at all. I’m not being sarcastic guys. We can totally trust a stranger who asks us where we live and know nothing about them.

mintiefresh ,

System volume? Lmaooooo wtf

WizardTree ,

They are clearly deciding if they need to start producing hearing aids

njordomir ,

Potentially, and Ive also seen it used for ads. The first time Spotify noticed me mute my system and paused the ad, I became enraged. Its’s a step too far. Luckily with external speakers I can just mute at the speaker level instead.

schwim ,
@schwim@lemmy.world avatar

If you’re using Spotify on Windows, consider installing a system ad blocker like Adguard for Windows and route Spotify traffic through it. It will strip the ads.

If you’re using Spotify on Android, consider installing the app through X-Manager, which will give you an ad-free experience.

hydra ,
@hydra@lemmy.world avatar

if you’re on Android just use xManager

Midnight_Ice ,

That’s like that Black Mirror episode where the people are required to keep their eyes open and focused on the screen for everything

Naja_Kaouthia ,
@Naja_Kaouthia@lemmy.world avatar

Christ on a bike, does it want my gym locker combination as well?

Tigbitties ,
@Tigbitties@kbin.social avatar

Stop giving them ideas

Saneless ,

No but it needs access to your front camera so it can record your face before and after using threads. They want to see if their engagement algorithms made you mad so then they can tell it’s working

0ddysseus ,

Jfc man, thanks for the hot tip on the ddg tracker protection! I’ve been using ddg for a while now on the phone and have out some effort into curating apps so most of what I have is private/secure/open source, but I still have a bunch of things like the Netflix app that I know are sketchy. I’ve just gone through every app I have and confirmed things like Jerboa, VLC, antenna pod, etc are all free of trackers. The real fun surorises though were my bank app and my state government services app, which are each on about 45 tracking attempts across 36 categories. The services one even uses two seperste tracker companies. That’s super fun!

Fuck I’m glad I have this ddg add on now :D

PieMan ,

Damn duckduckgo app protection is great! I’d never heard about it, installed and turned on now. Good call-out, thank you.

I encourage others to look this up too!

Screwthehole ,

I got it running yesterday after seeing this thread. No noticeable difference to me, very noticeable difference to the online leech companies. I’m a happy camper

Fredselfish ,
@Fredselfish@lemmy.world avatar

How does it work on mobile?

Screwthehole ,

It’s working great. 36 hours in and more than 33,000 tracking attempts blocked. It’s mind boggling

And worst offenders are places I wouldn’t have expected, like the docusign app, and being scraped by companies I’ve never heard of like comScore and bugsnag

Fredselfish ,
@Fredselfish@lemmy.world avatar

What I mean is do zi download an app or is it a browser I use.

Screwthehole ,

Oh ya you download the browser app, then turn on app tracker blocking in settings. I couldn’t find it at first, but just googled it and the first answer worked. So all ya need is the duckduckgo app. At least, on Android

Fredselfish ,
@Fredselfish@lemmy.world avatar

Thank you I will do that.

jdevsd ,

And on iOS https://i.imgur.com/2FEL5Cy.jpg

alligatorSoup ,
@alligatorSoup@feddit.uk avatar

Search history… Really?

Skyrkazm ,

“Other data” that it doesn’t specify. What’s next, my shoe size and sleep schedule?

Pika ,

if it has access to health it likely has sleep schedule already

smokedtofu ,

No, this doesn’t mean that they have access to your Apple Health data

donut4ever ,
@donut4ever@lemmy.world avatar

Does iOS block all that shit when you don’t allow that tracking pop up that iPhones have?

jdevsd ,

Some, like location can be blocked and same for health & fitness. You can also tell iOS to not allow an app to track you but I don’t think that blocks everything. But say you allow access to “all photos” that means they can parse the exif data from all your photos and have map of everywhere they were taken.

donut4ever ,
@donut4ever@lemmy.world avatar

This is nuts. Why would anyone let this through knowingly? I fight so hard to at least make as hard as possible for these assholes to collect info on me. People just this shit and agree to all of that without batting an eye.

henfredemars ,

Facebook I’m only comfortable using inside a browser for this reason, and not with Chrome either. Something proper like Firefox that can block third party cookies and run it in a container automatically so it can’t follow you around. I need to contain the filth.

0ddysseus ,

I wouldn’t even type fa in by Firefox without the Facebook containers extension. And yeah, chrome can jam it

Someonelol ,

What kind of addon do you use to contain the tracking cookies on Firefox? I’d really like to get it too.

henfredemars ,

It’s built into Firefox! You don’t need one.

Click on the shield icon in the upper left (on Desktop) and from there you can get into your tracking protection settings. It also has a dashboard showing what has been blocked. Categories are social media, tracking cookies, tracking content, fingerprinting, and cryptominers. Facebook containers are also built into Firefox on desktop. That feature is called Container Tabs and is in settings also.

On Firefox for Android, you go to the three dots thing -> Settings -> Enhanced Tracking Protection.

Most browsers today have something like this built-in because it’s such a problem, except Chrome, because Google is an ad company first and would be shooting their own foot.

skipperwannabe ,

There is also this official extension. IIRC, this also makes sure that all the meta owned sites are not able to interact with other sites, but can work fine with each other. It also makes sure that any links leading to their sites also only open in the container, maybe also sanitized to remove the tracker from original link. The last part I am not sure, as I might be confusing it with a different extension. But if you are using any of the Meta sites, I would recommend it.

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