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.
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.
Reminded me of this... People will support a lot of bad things if the alternative is a minor inconvenience
I like to scare people that they will be "the parents still on facebook" if they won't abandon corporate social media.
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.
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 ?
Did you set it up on your router level? I thought I'd have to set it up device by device
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.
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.
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).
as a complete narcissist, I have always cared about this. thank you for reminding me.
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.
Signal is the non-corporate replacement for What's App although realistically you end up having both due to network effects.
Exactly for me, but some group chats on Messenger.
