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theclaw on April 8, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveilla...

You don't have to explicitly like anything for FB to track your usage on practically every website that has a Facebook button. The fact that the site displays the like button in your browser is enough to give Facebook whatever info Facebook wants about your activity on the site.

chiefalchemist on April 9, 2018 [–]

Ok. Fair enough.

But there are borwser extensions to block that, yes?

Note: That's not a tit for tat counter attack but a question. Tia

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