• FlowVoid@midwest.social
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        Ok, so if I visit a travel site with a Like button, then Facebook knows someone visited that site.

        Later if I visit a sports site with a Like button, then Facebook knows someone visited that site too.

        But since I don’t let Facebook store cookies on my browser, Facebook still can’t link the first visit to the second one. Or link those visits to any future sites I visit. So how it can serve personalized ads on them?

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          It can link first by IP address, and then by fingerprinting.

          Best to use unlock origin etc. to block all those little buttons. Don’t even connect to their server

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      If third parties agree they can send Facebook plenty of information when you visit to figure out who you are.

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        1 year ago

        Even sharing information, how do they build a profile without third party cookies?

        For instance, suppose I visit a travel website on Thursday and a sports website on Friday. Even if they work together, how do they figure that the person who visited on Thursday is the same as the person who visited on Friday? And how would Facebook match that when I visit them in order to serve a travel or sports ad?

        If I ban third party cookies, use a VPN, and obfuscate my browser/hardware, then I don’t see how they could build a profile that follows me around the web.