FabienLGJun 20, 2025
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Meta’s track record on privacy was already spotty, but the newest web-to-app trick is particularly brazen. Here’s what to do next.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/protect-yourself-metas-latest-attack-privacy
Protect Yourself From Meta’s Latest Attack on Privacy

The best way to stop this cycle of invasive tracking techniques and patchwork fixes is to ban online behavioral advertising. This would end the practice of targeting ads based on your online activity, removing the primary incentive for companies to track and share your personal data. We need strong federal privacy laws to ensure that you, not Meta, control what information you share online.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jun 20, 2025 at 6:02pmWeb
Show threadBandersnatchJun 20, 2025

@eff

Delete Meta & block all of their IP addresses at the edge of your network.

Problem solved.

Show threadDraken BlackKnightJun 20, 2025
@eff
"Spotty" is putting it magnanimously.
Show threadDr KnowJun 20, 2025
@eff drop all traffic to facebook google and Microsoft networks
Show threadSnuffleupadonJun 20, 2025
@eff it's really disheartening that Meta et al have all these highly intelligent people earning huge amounts of money and this is what they waste their talents on. I remember the first time I had this realization was when I heard about the Facebook "innovation" of playing an empty sound file to keep the app in the foreground to circumvent Android restrictions. They could be solving real problems but that's what they're concerned about.