Facebook are evil

[Orang Utan]

Is that not what WhatsApp is for?

Not in my milieu. Barely use it. Every now and then my brothers sends pics of my nieces playing in snow or whatever, but that’s about the extent of my use, aside from buying drugs.
Some friends have gone to Signal, but I never got in the habit of using it. I miss forums. They were better than Facebook. This is the only one still standing but the ones I chatted to mates about shared interests have all gone.

 

[existentialist]

In case you haven't already done this, please disconnect activity tracking on Facebook otherwise they will track everything you do off FB.

1 Go to FB settings (find it on your own page)
2 Scroll down to "Off-Facebook Activity"
3 Login to Accounts Center
4 Clear previous activity
5 After that, click Manage future activity > Disconnect future activity




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ETA IMPORTANT to go through all steps. I had No Recent Activity recorded but then still had to select "Manage future activity" and uncheck the permission. I thought I had done that on a previous occasion but suspect that simply engaging with the Off-Facebook Activity setting re-sets it.

That was quite eye-opening! Done.

 

[Orang Utan]

In case you haven't already done this, please disconnect activity tracking on Facebook otherwise they will track everything you do off FB.

1 Go to FB settings (find it on your own page)
2 Scroll down to "Off-Facebook Activity"
3 Login to Accounts Center
4 Clear previous activity
5 After that, click Manage future activity > Disconnect future activity




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ETA IMPORTANT to go through all steps. I had No Recent Activity recorded but then still had to select "Manage future activity" and uncheck the permission. I thought I had done that on a previous occasion but suspect that simply engaging with the Off-Facebook Activity setting re-sets it.

Thanks for that. Now spending ages telling them which subjects I don’t want ads for, such as meal planning apps and sports shit. It’s quite addictive
I also just got an alert that someone else has just tried to log in to my account in Nuneaton.
Coincidence? Have changed my password again

 

[danny la rouge]

I also just got an alert that someone else has just tried to log in to my account in Nuneaton.

Is Nuneaton nowhere near where you live? In that case it’s probably you.

 

[Orang Utan]

Is Nuneaton nowhere near where you live? In that case it’s probably you.

about 100 miles off! you’re probably right, on reflection - I’ve had such alerts before when I’ve just logged in with a new device. Not sure how that happens? You would have thought FB were adept at tracking people correctly.

 

[spitfire]

It depends on where the ISP server is AFAIK.

 

[existentialist]

Thanks for that. Now spending ages telling them which subjects I don’t want ads for, such as meal planning apps and sports shit. It’s quite addictive
I also just got an alert that someone else has just tried to log in to my account in Nuneaton.
Coincidence? Have changed my password again

I get this all the time, only in my case my location is notified as Maidenhead. Which isn't, last time I checked, in Wales, let alone nearby. It's where the block of IP addresses the ISP uses is registered.

 

[spitfire]

I think when you are posting and it suggests locations it is accessing your gps.

 

[xenon]

about 100 miles off! you’re probably right, on reflection - I’ve had such alerts before when I’ve just logged in with a new device. Not sure how that happens? You would have thought FB were adept at tracking people correctly.

I get alerts that someone in London has just logged into whatever. My ISPs HQ is in London.

 

[savoloysam]

Thanks for that. Now spending ages telling them which subjects I don’t want ads for, such as meal planning apps and sports shit. It’s quite addictive
I also just got an alert that someone else has just tried to log in to my account in Nuneaton.
Coincidence? Have changed my password again

Under settings and logged activity you can find both all of your active settings and all recent log ins and log outs.

 

[yield]

Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy
404media Jan 21, 2025 https://archive.ph/TJzyt

If it wasn’t already obvious, the last 72 hours have made it crystal clear that it is urgent to build and mainstream alternative, decentralized social media platforms that are resistant to government censorship and control, are not owned by oligarchs and dominated by their algorithms, and in which users own their follower list and can port it elsewhere easily and without restriction.

Besides all of the “normal” problems with corporate social media—the surveillance capitalism, the AI spam, the opaque algorithms—let’s take stock of what has happened in the last few days.

First, millions of small business owners and influencers who make a living on TikTok were left to beg their followers in TikTok’s last moments to follow them elsewhere in hopes of being able to continue their businesses on other corporate social media platforms. This had the effect of fracturing and destroying people’s audiences overnight, with one act of government.

TikTok has since come back, but it is still unclear what the future of the platform is, and TikTok now exists at the whim of President Trump and is beholden to him to an unknown extent. TikTok’s status in the Untied States is still up in the air—it is still not available for download in the iOS App Store or the Google Play Store, and it could disappear at any moment if service providers like Oracle decide that Trump’s executive order and assurances that they will not be prosecuted or fined are not enough assurance to keep the app online.

Elon Musk, who had already turned X into a cesspool of hate and an overt tool to get President Trump elected, is now formally part of the Trump administration, meaning the platform is literally owned by a member of the Trump White House.

Meta has made an overt shift to the right, and Mark Zuckerberg has himself become a Trump booster. The platform is making its content moderation worse, has declared that immigrants and LGBTQ+ people are legitimate targets for hate speech, and has made many of these changes at the behest of the Trump White House and Stephen Miller, according to The New York Times.

Zuckerberg, Musk, TikTok CEO Shou Chew, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were all in attendance at Trump’s inauguration Monday. There is now no major corporate-owned social media platform that is not aligned with Trump or beholden to him in some way, and nearly every American is on at least one of these platforms.

 

[gentlegreen]

Thanks for that. Now spending ages telling them which subjects I don’t want ads for, such as meal planning apps and sports shit. It’s quite addictive
I also just got an alert that someone else has just tried to log in to my account in Nuneaton.
Coincidence? Have changed my password again

The ads thing doesn't work. I wasted a lot of time on it...
And that didn't include takeaways advertising to the whole country.
It's why I eventually relented and got an ad blocker.
On Android it doesn't seem quite as bad