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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data (www.eff.org)
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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 61 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Interesting that they don't mention using things like Firefox's Facebook Container (which essentially puts Facebook trackers in jail) or just outright deleting your Meta accounts. Harder to track what you're not engaged with.

If you're actually mad at Meta, do yourself a favor and delete your account; join the Fediverse instead. Friendica is the analog replacement for Facebook, and Pixelfed is the replacement for Instagram. There, EFF. I improved your article.

And if you know someone that says, "BuT mY fRiEnDs ArE aLL tHeRe!" tell them to stop being a whiny little baby and make new friends.

[–] lurklurk@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago

Reminded me of this... People will support a lot of bad things if the alternative is a minor inconvenience

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago

I like to scare people that they will be "the parents still on facebook" if they won't abandon corporate social media.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I started blocking Meta with NextDNS. Zuck is a creepy piece of shit who belongs in prison. If you want to resolve his domains it's not happening on my networks or devices ever again.

[–] shield_87@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

i really wanted to do the same but without blocking whatsapp 🥲 unfortunately I have to use whatsapp ... is there any list out there that blocks just Meta's tracking without necessarily blocking something like whatsapp ?

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not that I've seen but I think you should be able to use the allowlist to let it through.

[–] shield_87@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 day ago

yeah that seems to be the only way, unfortunately. i do wonder for how long that will work, considering Meta wants to tie in Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp even more. idk, I'm not really tech savvy haha

[–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I feel it's all or nothing though

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Did you set it up on your router level? I thought I'd have to set it up device by device

[–] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Not the person you asked, but also a nextdns user: I have a light (in terms of blocking) profile on my router (set up via a DoH address, but DoT and traditional DNS are also possible). Then I have a much more strict profile I use just for my phone and laptop with more serious blocking, including porn filters (recovering addict). I set these up per-device, but later I learned I can do it in Tailscale (which I did).

[–] randombullet@programming.dev 8 points 4 days ago

PiHole and AdGuard are both easy to setup servers for network wide DNS blocking. (Homenetworking)

NextDNS is an external entity that allows you to setup DNS blocking on devices that support DoT, DoH, and occasionally plaintext DNS. (For your phone and other mobile devices)

iPhones and Androids both support DoT while Firefox (and likely most modern browsers) supports DoH.

If you don't want to rely on an external entity, you could use a wire guard split tunnel to block your ads away from your home network. Additionally you can set up a VPS and self host your DNS server there.

[–] Pzulu@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

If you can block all DNS traffic on you router, you can them redirect it to your own DNS server.

And PiHole seems to be the one many people use for that. Lots of guides for it, pre-made list on what to block etc.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

as a complete narcissist, I have always cared about this. thank you for reminding me.

[–] oascany@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I used three Meta products:

Whatsapp, Facebook Marketplace, and Instagram. I've completely gone off Insta, I only really used it to see posts and reels my friends sent me.

I don't really know an alternative to WhatsApp and Marketplace that I can use. I'm very careful to not interact with any Facebook advertisements on Marketplace though.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Signal is the non-corporate replacement for What's App although realistically you end up having both due to network effects.

[–] Clanket@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Signal is great. Think I read that WhatsApp will be forced to allow interoperability with other apps. Would be great if you could use Signal to access chats that started on WhatsApp. Fuck Zuckerberg. Whatsapp the only Meta app I use and only because the bastards bought it

[–] lurklurk@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Just start a new chat

[–] Mosfar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is what is happening to me, I can't force my folks to drop WhatsApp. Only a few have Signal

[–] lurklurk@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

You can stop using WhatsApp without everyone agreeing with you. If they want to talk to you they'll find a way

[–] oascany@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah, same, can't get my friends to quit WA

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Exactly for me, but some group chats on Messenger.