Graylin Fox SjodinJan 19, 2025
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data

If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect and profit from your personal data, here’s what you need to know.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jan 17, 2025 at 5:40pmWeb
Show threadTom R.Jan 17, 2025
@eff whatsapp is also meta, right?
Show threadabjJan 17, 2025
@ruettet @eff yes, ditched it 9 years ago
Show threadJames M.Jan 17, 2025
@ruettet yes.
Show threadPaul TourvilleJan 17, 2025
@eff I'm working on it right now.
Show thread10tothe22Jan 17, 2025
@eff @GottaLaff
Show threadDon MartiJan 17, 2025

@eff Also don't forget to check https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity to see which companies are dumping your info to Meta -- in many states you can make them stop doing it

Even if you don't have an account on any of the Meta sites or apps, you still have a "shadow profile" with info fed to them by thousands of companies

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Show threadEdward HasbrouckJan 17, 2025
@eff - Or, just don't use Meta services. Close your account(s) if you have/had them, and request that all data be expunged. (Although they collect data about even non-users.)
Show threadMaggie MaybeJan 17, 2025
@ehasbrouck @eff I tried to make a comment in support of a house bill on the government website in my state (NH) and I got a little pop-up warning that Facebook would be able to track me across websites if I chose to leave a comment in that box. I don’t even have Facebook, but it sure as hell discouraged me from voicing support for a house bill that I support.
Show threadEdward HasbrouckJan 17, 2025
@maggiejk @eff - Sounds like an issue to raise with your state rep & senator. But would Facebook be able to track you when you left a comment on legislative proposal if you didn't have Facebook or Meta account or accept cookies from Facebook or Meta?
Show threadHazelnutJan 17, 2025
@eff I would have to have a meta/facebook account to do any of what you suggested. How about a complete list of their data collection IP addresses so I can block them at my firewall to prevent embedded javascript from contacting them?
Show threadMichael MarbutJan 17, 2025

@eff What is the EFF's opinion on Mozilla Firefox Facebook container?

It's supposed to be running Facebook in a container tab so that it can't access any of the other browsing being done.

Show threadJorge LuizJan 17, 2025

@eff

Someone told me that there is no lunch for free.
All that you write and talk in whats app is converted in strategies by Meta.
The AI ROBOT in what's APP are monitoring you!
True ?
Lie ?
Who Knows ?

Show threadGregJan 17, 2025

@eff I've disabled Google Play Services and all Google apps. The only App that refuses to run is Strava, which is no loss, as I use OpenTracks. I have no advertising ID on my phone. Also run Privacy Badger & UBlock Origin on Firefox and reject most cookies, I also have 8 unregistered Nectar cards on rotation.

Not to gloat, but just for a giggle, I downloaded everything Google thought they knew about me... turns out it's around ⅝ of F.All.

Show threadCurtis CooleyJan 17, 2025
@eff I use Opera for Android and Linux. The desktop app has Privacy Badger on top of ad and tracker blocking. The mobile app just has the default add and tracker blocking, but still better than Chrome letting Alphabet and Meta track everything.
Show threadCatherine SchmidtJan 17, 2025
@eff very valuable information. Thank you
Show threadManVsXerox: Resistful DingusJan 17, 2025
@eff I am reading but I don't have RayBan or Oculus and I have fully deleted all meta accounts, (Facebook, Insta, and Whatsapp). So how else can I block, do I just have to block pixel manually on my browsers?
Show threadNoxy 🐾🏳️‍🌈Jan 17, 2025
@eff Is it better to have no accounts with Meta at all, or to have accounts and only use them to opt out of as much stuff as possible?
Show threadelgregorJan 17, 2025
@noxypaws @eff Good question, I also want to know.
Show threadDaniel QuinnJan 18, 2025

@eff so your advice to avoid Meta collecting your data is to... [reads article] ...ask them nicely not to do it?

That's rather naïve don't you think? Shouldn't we be talking about how to delete your account, file a GDPR request, and switch to better alternatives?

Show threadMuhammed Ali BilginJan 18, 2025
@eff I am fed up with Meta because they block posts exposing the Israeli massacres in Gaza. They serve Zionism. You can't hide the truth in this day and age. I hate Meta and I hate the murderers. This is the only information you will ever get from me: I hate the disgusting murderers.
Show threadsparseMatrix 📻Jan 18, 2025

@eff

Don’t even use meta

Show threadZoë Mc Pherson | SFXJan 27, 2025
@eff they changed how it looks to make it more complicated of course, but its good to have a fiddle around and change the settings for less "personalised adds" as they call it
Show threadAGF : poemproducerJan 29, 2025
@eff delete all apps off your phone