•  db0   ( @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      1 year ago

      Not accurate. Due to how widespread facebook trackers are, it can identify you from the behaviour of others. People in your social circle linking to your content. People in your subnet using facebook services. People who hgave your phone numbers linking to your content on whatsapp etc. It’s scary how easy it is for a massive corpo to remove anonymity from anyone if they want to.

        • I doubt it

          It has been demonstrated time and time again that social graph fingerprinting is not only widespread but extremely effective.

          your only way of circumventing it is not to use social media

          This article literally demonstrates a way of circumventing it. Blocking all instances that federate with threads.

          Additional tracking options can further improve your privacy and difficulty to be fingerprinted in general, things like librewolf, for example.

    • That’s not the question here.

      The 2 problems here are

      that F*book scrapes this user’s personal data from other random places (very illegal)

      and that they change the FB profile without asking the user specifically (should be illegal, but maybe they find an excuse in their terms & conditions)