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?
  • Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org
    48·
    6 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.

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
    17·
    6 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.

      • Overzeetop@beehaw.org
        3·
        6 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).

  • PenguinTD@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    6 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)