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Under Oath, Zuckerberg Admits Facebook DOES Have “Tools” To Track Its Users Without User Knowledge
Twitter ^ | 11/17/20 | Josh Hawley

Posted on 11/17/2020 3:03:02 PM PST by Enlightened1

Under oath, Zuckerberg admits Facebook DOES have “tools” to track its users across the internet, across platforms, across accounts - all without user knowledge. I ask how many times this tool has been used domestically against Americans. Zuck won’t say

https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1328763921013018626


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: facebook; tools; trackusers; zuckerberg
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To: Enlightened1

We’ve known this like forever. It’s why I didn’t want to sign up 10 years ago, but it was that or never communicate with my family.


21 posted on 11/17/2020 3:43:00 PM PST by Musket (It's very simple:<i>your quoted text pasted here</i><p> produces Quoted Italic with paragraph break)
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To: Ancesthntr

“WT ever-living F gives FB the right to track us everywhere on the Internet????”

Did your lawyer explain their EULA to you fully?


22 posted on 11/17/2020 3:43:07 PM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Enlightened1

This has been quite clear.

Google something and it will appear in a Facebook ad.


23 posted on 11/17/2020 3:52:37 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Enlightened1

The Samsung Smart TV with secret facial recognition and remote activation of camera was a shock, too.
Those tech people are really something./s


24 posted on 11/17/2020 3:58:47 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Enlightened1

These people aren’t that smart. They just bank on people being so addicted or dependent on their devices, that they wouldn’t care if they are being followed.

It’s a house of cards. Just stop existing in their realm, even if for a little while, and they can’t see you.

How? We can discuss it. Even better? Create absurd personas of yourself just to look around their platforms. After all, they are just a bunch of nerds thinking they have their revenge in thinking they are controlling you.


25 posted on 11/17/2020 3:58:59 PM PST by cll (Serviam!)
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To: glimmerman70

We already know that FakeBook and The Twit censor free speech and totally control their members’ comments and even threaten their online security. It’s scary how much power Zuck and Rasputin Jack now have. Controlling our free speech and especially the outcomes of our elections, which they are both doing bigtime, is called fascism. Anyone still using these websites is enabling more fascism and censorship. Both sites should be forced to break up their internet monopolies and thus, lose their huge power to influence and their current escape from being held responsible for their censorship and any lack of legal recourse for what they promote and decide is acceptable public speech.


26 posted on 11/17/2020 4:15:59 PM PST by TheUSConstitution matters
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To: hardspunned

Not like these ass clowns will do anything anyways. “Look! I can burn a witness on TV but won’t do anything to stop him setting more fires! “


27 posted on 11/17/2020 4:22:59 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (It is the Trump way! It is the only way!)
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To: Enlightened1

bookmark


28 posted on 11/17/2020 4:29:06 PM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: Enlightened1

bookmark


29 posted on 11/17/2020 4:30:36 PM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: dp0622

I was in 1964 heaven as a 13 yo finding my dads Playboys in the attic! And they didn’t even show anything lol
(These days kids get porn on their phones)


30 posted on 11/17/2020 4:33:01 PM PST by citizen (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. John Adams)
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To: Enlightened1

Known this for years and I wish I could find the original thread here on FR that discussed it some 10+ years ago now.

Briefly:

1. Do a fresh OS install of Win7/8/10 or Linux on any computer.

2. Browse Yahoo.com, Amazon.com, eBay.com, NY Times, and pick any other ten top twenty websites you want. Exception: DO NOT BROWSE FACEBOOK.

3. Go examine the cookies on the computer. You'll find you're being tracked by Facebook without ever having browsed Facebook on that computer or opened a facebook account with that computer.

So many websites, online shopping sites, etc.. send their cookie data to Facebook for correlation. In summary, your browsing information is correlated to your computer and your identity for marketing purposes. It's a HUGE part of Facebook's revenue stream.

You and I cannot possibly opt out of all the advertising services/cookies that are set on our computers that are sent to facebook.

What we CAN do is BLOCK FACEBOOK from setting cookies on our computers. I do that. Ther are video's on how to do it, all one has to do is LOOK.

Want to kill Facebook? Learn to block their cookies and stop them from correlating your data.

Educate yourselves, people. You're being tracked by them even if you don't have an account there.

31 posted on 11/17/2020 4:53:39 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: polymuser

Yeah, sure.

If 1 in 10,000 people ever reads those things, let alone understands them, I would be shocked. Most of them should be void as a matter of law because they are intentionally misleading.


32 posted on 11/17/2020 6:46:47 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: usconservative

Beware ‘persistent cookies,” and other insidious methods. Trackers imbedded in a single pixel in an image—for real.

Me: No Script, Ghostery, Privacy Badger addons on firefox, with privacy settings set quite high. And PIA VPN, set to “always on.”

There are sites you can go to that “inspect” your computer over the net, see how invisible and annonymous you are. Kind of a targeted attempt to hack in and invade privacy. I score completely invisoble, and never get targeted ads.

Getting tougher. Now they “fingerprint” your browser, look at every transmitted setting (resolution, etc.), try to identify you that way.


33 posted on 11/17/2020 7:30:04 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (This is all a Soros funded communist insurrection! )
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

The newest version of Firefox blocks fingerprinting your browser. Discovered that tonight when I went to Newsmax to watch their livestream and saw that Firefox blocked their "fingerprinting" my browser.

Bastards.

34 posted on 11/17/2020 8:40:09 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: citizen

“These days kids get porn on their phones.”

Which has terribly hurt relationships and mens’ perspectives.

Lucifer loves video screens.


35 posted on 11/18/2020 3:32:01 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

They’re working so very, very hard on tracking everyone — by smart devices, phone call data, Internet usage, credit card usage, store cams, traffic cams, smart car telemetry, Alexa/Google home devices, cable TV and sat radio choices...

Lucifer loves electronics.

Time to get and read 1984 again, before it’s banned.


36 posted on 11/18/2020 3:43:15 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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