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· Föderation EN Fr 28.03.2025 18:29:04 @FediTips I’d always assumed it protected the user from having their profile or group leaked to websites they visit (which is good IMO for privacy if there’s not another way to achieve that). Hadn’t considered Facebook using it for tracking and did not look into getting more website-related metrics from them. The most blatant tracking, of course, is when social media sites try to map your network of contacts with share IDs tacked onto URLs (or just unique URLs) you share. |
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Föderation EN Sa 29.03.2025 13:06:25 Clicking on a direct link doesn't show your profile to websites? I've not heard that before? Whatever info leaks to a website, it's the same whether you click directly or via a redirect. The redirect just leaks additional info to whoever controls the redirect site. |
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Föderation EN Sa 29.03.2025 14:32:49 @FediTips I didn’t mean that direct links don’t show your profile to websites, of course that would happen if following a link from someone’s profile (at least on the web). Looking at Google analytics for Facebook referrals in the past, I only saw a redirect URL as the referrer, not the URL of anyone’s profile (same with Twitter). Facebook offered a more private experience by default, so it seemed to make sense to me that way. But it’s quite obvious now that they have nefarious uses for that data with tendrils that spread across the web to collect an entire profile about you. |
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Föderation EN Sa 29.03.2025 14:49:08 Ahhh gotcha, now I understand what you mean 🙂 Thanks! |
