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Facebook Uses IP Address and Other Info to Deliver Location-Based Ads Even When Location Options are Disabled
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Delete the app and your account and ask friends and family to use another means of contact. If you don't want to do that, you best use a VPN at all times and know, that Facebook does not care about your privacy and will anything you post on their service for their own gain.
In my opinion, Facebook should be treated as Malware.
In my opinion, Facebook should be treated as Malware.
I never use Wifi on my phone, except at home. With fake access points, and harvested IP addresses for tracking, I see no reason not to just you the data I paid for. And I also don't use Facebook.
A Pi-Hole doesn't do anything for the information people have volunteered to Facebook like your friends, family, phone number, photos, etc.
If facebook is the only way you can find those things out your family doens't really love you and those people aren't really your friends.
Easy delete facebook, use ABP, and use VPN, also if you like use duckduckgo search engine
If you've noticed Facebook continuing to deliver location-based ads even with all location services disabled, you're not alone, and that's because Facebook continues to use data like your IP address to determine your location for ad delivery purposes.
Facebook's lack of an option to disable location tracking for ad targeting was highlighted in a Medium post shared today by Aleksandra Korolova, assistant professor of Computer Science at USC.
Korolova noticed that Facebook was continuing to provide location-based ads even after she disabled Location History, turned off the location services option for Facebook on her iOS devices, and removed her city from her profile. She didn't upload photos, tag herself at certain locations, or check in, nor does she allow WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger to access her location.As it turns out, and as Facebook explains on its ads page, it is collecting location data based on "where you connect to the Internet" and "where you use your phone," aka your IP address, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth data. As Korolova points out, Facebook does not explain that turning off all location services will not stop Facebook from "going to great lengths to obtain and use location data for advertising."
Facebook does not make it a secret that it is using IP addresses and other information for ad targeting, but most people are likely not aware that their locations are still being tracked in this way even after disabling location tracking settings.
Facebook, Korolova argues, should do better, because the locations that a person visits and lives in can reveal a lot about them, and that's info that any Facebook advertiser can take advantage of through ads. Facebook should be providing "meaningful" tools over the location information that it's collecting, rather than options to disable location services that don't actually mean anything because location data is still being collected over IP address.
In statements provided to Gizmodo, Facebook confirmed that it's using IP information for location tracking purposes and that there's no way for users to turn off location tracking entirely.
"There is no way for people to opt out of using location for ads entirely," a Facebook spokesperson told Gizmodo. "We use city and zip level location which we collect from IP addresses and other information such as check-ins and current city from your profile to ensure we are providing people with a good service--from ensuring that they see Facebook in the right language to making sure that they are shown nearby events and ads for businesses that are local to them."
If you use Facebook, there is no way to prevent Facebook from tracking location, except perhaps by enabling a VPN at all times. Quitting Facebook and deleting the app entirely is the only way to make sure the site isn't tracking you, and even then, Facebook has "shadow profiles" with data on people who don't even use the social network.
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I feel like most companies would use IP addresses for location data for something like this... Google does it by default if you search for something like a store nearby too. IP addresses are easy to get if you're a web developer.
Not sure why this is just being discovered.
You should start using Apple products! =)
You’ll have an ENTIRELY different experience!!!
Example:
If I am looking up Walmart to do online shopping OR to call my local store; I can type “Walmart” into the Safari omnibar... Google then ASKS MY PERMISSION “would you like your location used for this search”- depending on which I was trying to go to, I can hit yes or no.
That has been my experience each & every time I look up local stores for years on end...
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I think its important to distinguish between general tracking by IP and accurate based tracking (location services on a device being turned on)
because they are different.. Turning off all location based options but someone still tracking via an IP alone, only knows someone at that location is being tracked,, Could be you, or it could be someone else for a device you've shared.
I'd be fine with that.... just as long as its not uniquely set on my device.
Good luck passing that through everyone's mind now.. People often try and and they return to the 'scene of the crime' in 24 hours.
Trying to pry people away from social media sites is like trying to kill all the bugs in the world at once. It's never gonna happen. (even with a giant can of pesticides)
because they are different.. Turning off all location based options but someone still tracking via an IP alone, only knows someone at that location is being tracked,, Could be you, or it could be someone else for a device you've shared.
I'd be fine with that.... just as long as its not uniquely set on my device.
Good luck passing that through everyone's mind now.. People often try and and they return to the 'scene of the crime' in 24 hours.
Trying to pry people away from social media sites is like trying to kill all the bugs in the world at once. It's never gonna happen. (even with a giant can of pesticides)
A VPN that gives you an IP address is a different part of the world can circumvent this tracking. They will *think* you are in this other area, even as you move around from place to place. It's pretty much the only solution that I can think of, and it usually comes with a slight degradation in connection speed, although that varies depending on your setup.
People are so crazy about this kind of stuff that its... well.. crazy! We are 7 billion... Facebook alone has what? 2 billion users? Almost no one cares about what you do... Stop thinking you are some kind of special snowflake (being a normal snowflake is not enough anymore) that companies are so interested on what you do and are following your every step in the Internets. You're just part of a huge data packet that includes... Everybody?
Plus, you are on the Internet, of course you will lose some privacy. It's part of the deal... You want complete privacy? Terminate your internet contracts and go offline... Forever...
And on top of that, you are using a free service (Facebook)... One would think that, on 2019 people would already know that if something is free, the ones using it are the real product...
Plus, you are on the Internet, of course you will lose some privacy. It's part of the deal... You want complete privacy? Terminate your internet contracts and go offline... Forever...
And on top of that, you are using a free service (Facebook)... One would think that, on 2019 people would already know that if something is free, the ones using it are the real product...
You're referring to browser-based geolocation (via JavaScript in this browser), and this has nothing to do with your internet protocol address (ie. IP Address), assigned to you by your internet provider. If your internet provider is based in Chicago, your IP address can be used to locate you somewhere in Chicago, and serve up relevant ads or search results. That happens completely separate from your devices.
Does Safari 12 have WebRTC? If you run a VPN and do a WebRTC leak test, would your real IP be revealed?
We basically cause this damage to ourselves, because we chose to go online in the first place. We nly have ourselves to blame for other companies we "have" to trust.... No,, mean, we "want" to trust... No one is forcing people to use networking, except all out friends and family is on there, but no one wants to be the 'black' sheep either..
Can't have it all. (That would be 'being spoiled')
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. You cant prevent all tracking, but there are many ways to mitigate it, some better than others. The one thing which does NOT work like people think, is using free VPN services. Do you really think those free VPNs aren't monitoring everything you do over it? Let's just say, I highly doubt they're not. I often wonder what their agenda is.
If you use a good VPN like PIA or NORD, no, it would not, provided there wasn’t a problem with the service.
WebRTC is at the browser level. I did some testing in the past using PIA on MBA, Safari, sang like a canary and gave my real IP in leak test. I had to switch to Chrome and use Ublock with browser refer block.
I haven’t had any problems on iOS or Safari on iMac. You shouldn’t need to use Chrome with VPN. If you are seeing dns leaks, try changing locations with the service.
I quit using FaceBook in 2016 when it got heavy politically. Now that we know not only is Facebook incredibly politically biased, they could care less about user privacy. Google is just as bad which I why I use DuckDuckGo as my search engine.
or in Firefox about:config and disable media.peerconection.enabled..
I wouldn't trust an add-on to not publish my IP....I'd always use my browser to control that.. That way i know i did it myself.