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Get a Euro zone VPN and try, maybe change your location to match?

I think the correlation is termed "libertarian."

> I also don't have to worry about megalomaniacs such as Zuckerberg sifting through my data and selling it.

No, they track everyone across the web via their embedded pixels and create "shadow profiles." I have never joined Facebook, but they still know me. I block their tracking by blocking their various websites. I'm not sure that's enough as I understand they still buy data. In their defense, I don't think they sell my data, except perhaps to the NSA.

I've never been a member, but I know they have a shadow profile of everyone. I blocked facebook and other tracking at the router some time ago, but am thinking of "showing up" from a European VPN in hopes they get spooked enough to delete my data.

Yes, but I no longer feed it, and all this blocking speeds my internet substantially. I wonder how many people pay extra to subsidize their own tracking.

This is even more highly disturbing and problematic. How do I prove it's me? How do they keep other people from impersonating my "shadow" and downloading my data w/o my knowledge?

Face book needs to delete all nonmember data now. My solution is to block everything they do via dns. I blocked 43 requests from my devices this morning alone, and I stay as far away as I can, and yet they tried to access 43 times.

My next tactic is to spook them into thinking I moved to Europe and they risk serious revenue loss if they continue data collection w/o opting in. I will probably get a euro VPN once the law takes effect and see via dns if they still collect.

If information about you has to be acquired through a social graph by asking permissions at each node (person) and ultimately with the target themselves, it becomes significantly harder than the current condition. I can envision a system where Facebook and centralized data stores no longer have any reason to exist.

In 2016, there was a ruckus about Facebook collecting nonmembers viewing habit across the internet, so the answer is yes for my case. As far as I know, as a nonmember, I cannot access my shadow profile unless I join and give them yet more data to invade my privacy.

Rather than live in George Orwell's nightmare, I have resorted to spending my time blocking their tracking at the dns request level on my router for all my devices. The great thing is you can block a bunch of other trackers and spyware as well.

Facebook is but one example of the neutering of the once powerful media. Long ago in the US, there were three tv networks, one or two local newspapers and that's it. A guy named Walter Cronkite single handedly swung public opinion against the war in Vietnam. No one holds that single power today.

The social graph of the world is too important to put in the hands of a company trying to monetize it. It needs to be decentralized and open source. Diaspora looks interesting in that regard, but I think the solution is a least a few iterations away from that.

Wow, thanks for this.

Data poisoning doesn't work. See:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nvYGi7-Lxo&app=desktop

The gist is social media posts can be used as a unique fingerprint to correlate your whole browser history. Unless you are willing to spam your friends with useless links....

Researchers discovered a politician had a certain medical condition and a judge had "interesting" habits, even in privacy centric Germany. All from publicly available apis and data for sale.

They specifically say their algo is immune to data poisoning.

If he has something to hide, he really shouldn't be on the internet, because the age of privacy is over.

In the words of John Belushi, "you effed up - you trusted us"

http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-use...

He also notably tapes over his webcam and microphone - you'd infer he thinks he could be surveiled that way. I wonder why.

It's Ubuntu. Protectli is the equipment, easily obtainable on Amazon. If I had to do over I would use PCEngines however since they use core boot. Edit: you will also need a wireless access point to plug into a lan port. Ubiquity unify is great and is much better coverage than the consumer grade router this replaced.

An excellent guide: https://killtacknine.com/building-an-ubuntu-16-04-router-par...

Up for months, incredible speed, no maintenance, except to add new domains to block when they prove to be spyware. Twitter may be next on the list since it is of declining use to me.

I'll add that I'm by no means a linux whiz, but learned a lot by doing this project.

Biggest issue is explaining to guests why they can't access facebook.

Another bene is you no longer have the planned obsolescence of consumer grade equipment. I fully expect this thing to last a decade, and "firmware" is automatically updated via linux.

So if I have never joined Facebook, but fb has logged phone calls to me and associated them with my shadow profile - what is that?

It does not. I'd guess it hardly makes a dent in their tracking. The only sure way to block completely is to use a custom router on your network - an outgoing firewall. Via a custom dns server on my router, all requests from any device, browser, app, etc for the facebook or any ad or tracking domains never leave my network. This is powerful. Windows 10 intrusive spying can be blocked as well. Basically anything that I can't figure out what it is is blocked, and it's a lot. If I ever acquire malware that phones home, it should detect as well.

The great thing is when you block all that, your internet is much faster.

I never facebooked. You need to do much more than that to remove their tracking, since many pages have a Facebook like button, which tells Facebook what you are browsing based on your ip, which they undoubtedly already know is you.

They track you whether you join or not.

Agreed, and in the case of call logs that may exist on me it seems very close to an illegal wiretap for the party never a part of Facebook (me).