I will also add that friend suggestions are a good gauge if Facebook knows who you are. After deleting every friend suggestion they offered, eventually they cycled through countries of which I have nothing to do with. I went a month with friend suggestions from Nigeria. Then it switched to Arabic countries. then South America. Countless prostitutes or LGBTQ individuals popped up as suggestions. I treated friend suggestions like a game of Space Invaders. I clicked the “x” to remove everyone that was suggested.
Be aware that even if Facebook & Twitter do not have personally identifying info on you, they will fabricate it to defraud their advertisers.
On Twitter, I regularly uncheck everything they flag me as being interested in. The first time I did that, they locked me out of my account. I replied back to customer service and cussed them out. They apologized and restored my account. Now I uncheck everything as soon as I log in. Doing so will flag them to ask for my username or phone number. No one online has my phone number nor will they ever have it.
Many ways.
-Never gave them personally identifying data
-Didn’t add close family and friends. Only added random strangers. Rejected a friend request from my own sister.
-Used browser add ons to block data or randomize the browser fingerprint
-Blocked background domains in my hosts file used to exchange server info.
-Obfuscation. Clicked on links and shared random (90%) incorrect info on mindless polls & surveys.
I’m sure there were more things I did. Sometimes I’d copy a link to a poll and take the survey in a different browser.
On one occasion, I took a poll and the output of the result made it clear that they thought I was another family member using the same IP address.
This was my favorite quiz result.
How did you stop Facebook from collecting data on you?
I will also add that friend suggestions are a good gauge if Facebook knows who you are. After deleting every friend suggestion they offered, eventually they cycled through countries of which I have nothing to do with. I went a month with friend suggestions from Nigeria. Then it switched to Arabic countries. then South America. Countless prostitutes or LGBTQ individuals popped up as suggestions. I treated friend suggestions like a game of Space Invaders. I clicked the “x” to remove everyone that was suggested.
Be aware that even if Facebook & Twitter do not have personally identifying info on you, they will fabricate it to defraud their advertisers.
On Twitter, I regularly uncheck everything they flag me as being interested in. The first time I did that, they locked me out of my account. I replied back to customer service and cussed them out. They apologized and restored my account. Now I uncheck everything as soon as I log in. Doing so will flag them to ask for my username or phone number. No one online has my phone number nor will they ever have it.
Many ways. -Never gave them personally identifying data -Didn’t add close family and friends. Only added random strangers. Rejected a friend request from my own sister. -Used browser add ons to block data or randomize the browser fingerprint -Blocked background domains in my hosts file used to exchange server info. -Obfuscation. Clicked on links and shared random (90%) incorrect info on mindless polls & surveys.
I’m sure there were more things I did. Sometimes I’d copy a link to a poll and take the survey in a different browser. On one occasion, I took a poll and the output of the result made it clear that they thought I was another family member using the same IP address. This was my favorite quiz result.