“After signing into their ACT account, if a student accepted cookies on the following page, Facebook received details on almost everything they clicked on—including scrambled but identifiable data like their first and last name, and whether they’re registering for the ACT. The site even registered clicks about a student’s ethnicity and gender, and whether they planned to request college financial aid or needed accommodations for a disability”
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
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.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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How can we block this kind of tracking?
Ublock origin and Facebook Container are a good start. I would recommend having a look through the most upvoted posts of this sub as well.
I don’t think this is necessary anymore with total cookie protection being enabled by default https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/
Will our government ever care about this shit and make it illegal one day?
They do care about this shit. It’s relentless, warrantless surveillance they have access to.
A Scanner Darkly
Gotta see what demographics are doing what so they can hoard power, wealth, status.
Spooky facebook doing spooky things
I’m always watching, Wazowski. Always watching.
How can I do that, like linking to an image and there being thumbnail so you don’thave to click it?
We did it Lemmy!
[You’ve done well]
Edit: I FUCKING LOVE YOU, WAHOO!!!
Edit: is there any way to caption the text or abstract over displaying the link with the text you want go caption it as? Is that somehow possible?
You’ve done well
I don’t think so. AFAIK there is no native method to caption images in markdown, which is what this editor uses. People try to bring about this effect by italicising the part they would want as a caption right underneath the image. However, in your case, I see a
[You've done well]banner underneath the image, which I assume is the caption you meant. Not sure how that happened but if that works, great!*some text*= some textWhat do you think about my workaround I edited in? It works, however inelegantly
Hmm, I’m on my computer now and I can’t see the image for some reason.
Edit: sorry, just my browser. But why do I see two
[You’ve done well]s?