• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Isn’t the tracker pixel really old news hy now?

    I’ve never even been to the Facebook website, at all, ever. When I first heard of it I knew it was bad news.

    Like you, I’m sure they still know lots about me

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 months ago

      I think “metal pixel” has just become what they call their trackers, not that its an actual pixel any longer. I could be wrong but I’ve heard references to the “meta pixel” for enough years after most companies switch to JS or other methods that I jumped to conclusions.

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        10 months ago

        I so want to build a proxy that strips stuff like this, host it on a RPi with PiHole. Maybe a proxy could essentially apply a filtering CSS?

        Do enterprise level firwalls/IDS/IPS have some capability Ike this? Seems it would be the thing to do, ensuring some security against phishing.

        • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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          10 months ago

          You can find routers and what not with various PiHole like software. If you’re comfortable with network engineering then you can certainly write NACLs and the like to blacklist tracking networks.

          Stopping them at the browser level is also reasonably effective. EFF’s Privacy Badger is a must have extension for me.