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Facebook Keeps Secret Files On Internet Users Habits – Here’s How To Find Yours (Even Non-members)
Lucas Nolan ^ | 3-2-2018 | Breitbart

Posted on 03/02/2018 6:17:36 AM PST by blam

Facebook regularly collects data on its 1.4 billion daily active users worldwide — here is how to find the information they have collected on you. The Daily Mail reports that Facebook may be tracking your Internet habits even if you’ve never registered an account on the site. Facebook states that this information is used to target specific advertising towards users and for other security reasons —explaining why you may suddenly see ads on Facebook for a new lawnmower right after you searched the internet for “gardening supplies.” Although it is not really possible to stop Facebook tracking your internet habits, Facebook users can download the information that Facebook collects, so at least you have a firm grasp on what the Silicon Valley giant knows about you.

Facebook tracks user activities on more than 10,000 websites using invisible trackers called Pixels, these record information about users when they visit one of the sites and transmit it back to Facebook. Information collected by these Pixels include your IP Address, computer operating system, where you’re located, which sites you visit the most and what you do on these websites.

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1 posted on 03/02/2018 6:17:36 AM PST by blam
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To: blam
invisible trackers called Pixels

Ummmmmmmm ... what?

2 posted on 03/02/2018 6:18:39 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The government cannot protect you and isn't even trying. Self-defense is a right.)
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To: blam

I get zero ads since I installed the extension called FBP, Face Book Purity.


3 posted on 03/02/2018 6:22:39 AM PST by PROCON (Repeal the Gun-Free School Zone Act, Protect Our Children!)
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To: blam

The concept, one that I don’t agree with, is that the use of facebook is a trade for your information. But if you never use facebook. I am not sure why this is ok. You got nothing.

Just saying, in europe, you cannot keep information about people after you can’t show a “need” for the information. So I can keep information about you while you are on the site. But once you leave, I can’t store it. I think EUrope has it right here.


4 posted on 03/02/2018 6:25:27 AM PST by poinq
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To: PROCON

Did you see if that lowered the amount of data they have on you?


5 posted on 03/02/2018 6:26:49 AM PST by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: blam

Do Ghostery and NoScripts eliminate this tracking?


6 posted on 03/02/2018 6:27:25 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: blam

The purpose of Facebook is to advertise yourself. If you are trying to hide, you are doing it wrong.


7 posted on 03/02/2018 6:29:11 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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“even if you’ve never registered an account on the site”

How?

It says you can check on what they have....but only if you have an FB account...


8 posted on 03/02/2018 6:29:42 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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One of the biggest reasons I never get near social media. All the “biggies” take your information AND SELL IT. You name them...MS, Yahoo, Google, all the SM services, your grocery store, etc....it is big business and bucks for them.

Which underscores the fact that ANYTHING you put on, or via the net, is PUBLIC information.


9 posted on 03/02/2018 6:33:31 AM PST by EagleUSA
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It includes screen shots of bank statements?

That is terrifying, especially if anybody can download your data.


10 posted on 03/02/2018 6:40:08 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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No they’re called COOKIES and all the websites use them constantly. It’s a post privacy world folks, you’re just a data point.


11 posted on 03/02/2018 6:42:30 AM PST by discostu (Lick here [ ] you might be one of the lucky 25.)
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They don’t need to keep the information, your browser self reports constantly. None of this behave any differently for European users.


12 posted on 03/02/2018 6:43:25 AM PST by discostu (Lick here [ ] you might be one of the lucky 25.)
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To: AppyPappy

I don’t care what Facebook knows about me. My life is an open Facebook.


13 posted on 03/02/2018 6:44:22 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: blam

Bkmrk.


14 posted on 03/02/2018 6:45:37 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
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I have in the past gone out on the internet and did a search on my name - I saved the images and then posted them all as me on facebook - must of been at least a hundred different photos but same name. I guess the same would work with just random photo off the net.

I have in the past made random search (places or things)just to see what they do with the info (usually end up with travel information to the places I searched.

When ever I can give wrong information I do.

I am sure they have ways of filtering but I at least make them work on it.

I use facebook to share old family photos and genealogy information. It is a lot easier then sending photos out to everyone in the family


15 posted on 03/02/2018 6:53:55 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: ilovesarah2012

They don’t just know, they sell tge information.


16 posted on 03/02/2018 6:56:05 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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To: discostu
No they’re called COOKIES and all the websites use them constantly. It’s a post privacy world folks, you’re just a data point.

Actually we use tracking pixels. A single pixel image that gets loaded. Just loading it tells us a ton about the person using the page.
17 posted on 03/02/2018 7:05:10 AM PST by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: blam

Facebook and even Pinterest must “listen” to what is said around my computer/ipad/phone because I receive ads for things I never looked up but did talk about. Sometimes I receive ads for things my family talked about.


18 posted on 03/02/2018 7:05:57 AM PST by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: blam

Another Dindu Nuffin, transparent to the media.


19 posted on 03/02/2018 7:12:40 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: TexasGunLover

15 years ago single pixel images were EVIL ways that criminal users of the internet spied on its users or superstitiously exchanged info, along with hiding documents/data invisibly inside of the data that makes up a larger image.

Now its just how everybody does business.


20 posted on 03/02/2018 7:15:35 AM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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