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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Heads up. Facebook keylogs your passwords. (midwest.social)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Just block off *.facebook.com in uBlock Origin rules on Firefox (not possible on Chrome) or in system HOSTS ruleset. Leave out the fbcdn.net domain as it only acts as a CDN for videos and images.

Edit: fuck you GrapheneOS, for almost 2 months now, they are mass downvoting my comments, and doing voting manipulation, also abusing federation

[–] Mikina 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious, what does that have to do with GrapheneOS?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

See https://lemmy.ml/comment/7103845

You can see my comment history for the past month and a half with consistent 4-7 downvotes, if you ignore 4-5 comments people generally hated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You know, instance admins can find out who is downvoting and upvoting by checking the database. It doesn't have to be a mystery if you stand up your own instance. You don't even have to use it primarily, just get it federating your comments.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Self-hosting is a pain in the ass, and I do not have the time and dedication for it, as someone who has 100 other things in life. I am no longer even a terminally online person, I just come here to check on the state of Lemmy, put on some helpful comments, moderate privacy and technology communities, and go back to real world after dedicating 15-30 minutes a day to Lemmy.

[–] thejodie 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

netseer-ipaddr-assoc.xy.fbcdn.net looks to be tracking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I see, they have started pulling this shit. Probably a good idea to disable third party scripts with uBlock Origin's medium mode. Atleast that way they will not be able to run their malware JS.

I use hard mode generally, but that sounds like a good reason for people using uBO easy mode to level up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is about the web browser within Meta apps, uBlock on another browser won't help.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Then the HOSTS ruleset will work. You can use NetGuard or Invizible Pro with your custom HOSTS ruleset on Android, and on laptop/desktop, it is easy no matter if you use Linux, Windows, MacOS, BSD or other OSes. No option for iPhones and iPads.