Internet tracking (cookies) has been a common practice for years on every site visited.
I’m not seeing why this is just now being discussed. I’ve been offended by this invasion of privacy for decades.
LOL! Cause now they’ve been outed. I have my browser set to delete history and cookies anytime I close it down. That’s why I always keep getting asked the same security questions on certain sites I log into. And they still have trackers on me. And you. ;-)
but more importantly, how do you look up this info and how do you delete it from facecrook?
thankfully, I don't use it much...no pics...etc..
I can’t remember what the name of the Site was but it was Posted on FR years ago. It showed the other Sites that when you went say FR that would link to all the other Sites that automatically was gathering date . Started with a bubble in the center as FR and the other Sites bubble connected to the next ones with line from bubble to bubble.
It was amazing and revealing how many links there were.
Does anybody remember this ?
The Establishment decided it is worthy of discussion because it supposedly helped Trump in some small way.
Just like Fake News, which has existed for decades before it recently became a big topic of discussion.
The Left is slaying their own dragons.
I agree....
Internet tracking (cookies) has been a common practice for years on every site visited.
I’m not seeing why this is just now being discussed. I’ve been offended by this invasion of privacy for decades......
Also, recently have had ads pop up on sites after I search/browse other sites. Example...wigs. Not only did they pop up on Drudge but they were all over the screen and some were moving. Following my ever move.
What the hell are they thinking. It’s so very annoying that I would NEVER buy from them just for that reason alone.
“Internet tracking (cookies) has been a common practice for years on every site visited. I’m not seeing why this is just now being discussed.”
Cookies is like 0.0001% of this.
When Web Browsers first became available back in the mid 90's (Mozilla, Netscape for example) it was commonly understood that the cookies from one website could not be read by another site. Cookie formats were typically proprietary for each site and one website didn't know how to read the cookie for another website.
Fast forward to Fakebook and all their agreements with thousands and thousands of websites where cookie format and information from everyone including Yahoo, Amazon, Drudge (yes, Drudge!) MSN, CNN and more are shared with Facebook for the very purpose of being able track your activity, what you're looking at and share that information across websites.
I'll give you an example: Go to Amazon and search for anything. Then go to a site like Drudge, Yahoo, CNN, Facebook for example and what happens? Very likely the product(s) you looked at on Amazon are also displayed in the advertising sections of those websites.
How did that happen? Facebook.
Whether or not you're a Facebook user, they track you. That's been known for quite a while by advertisers and internet security professionals (such as myself and others here on FR) it's just NOW becoming public knowledge after this week's Zuckerberg "testimony" to House and Senate committees.
That's why this is a big deal. The general public is waking up and going "holy shit! They track ME?!" followed by "they track ME and I'm not even a facebook user?!"
The fact is, you can install any OS on your machine and do a clean install, then go to any of approximately 10 websites I can name, none of which are Facebook, and by the mere fact you've gone to those websites, Facebook assigns you an identity and starts tracking your web behavior.
The ONLY difference between Facebook vs. Non-Facebook users at that point is Facebook can associate YOUR PERSONAL IDENTITY (which most facebook users willingly and stupidly provide ...) with your web browsing behavior. For non-facebook users, they know everything about you EXCEPT your name. They know your machine, IP address, location based on that IP address, web browsing habits, products looked at and more.
Now, based on an IP address can facebook go back and make some assumptions or determinations on who you REALLY are? Yep. They sure can and it's not terribly difficult to do once an address is associated with the IP Address.
Scary stuff? You bet, and not just for Facebook users -- for ANYONE who browses the web and just so happens upon one or more of the websites that Facebook ingests and correlates cookies for because of their data sharing agreements with so many websites.
Some people think Amazon Echo (Alexa) is Skynet. They're wrong. Skynet is Facebook.