Some congressional Democrats say three large tax preparation firms sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta over at least two years.
Some congressional Democrats say three large tax preparation firms sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta over at least two years.
If you’re wondering who but don’t want to read the article:
Their report urges federal agencies to investigate and potentially go to court over the wealth of information that H&R Block, TaxAct and Tax Slayer shared with the social media giant.
That shit makes me so angry it’s crazy… Socialism for the corporations, “rugged individualism” for the citizens…
Republicans will scream and cry about socialism when we discuss healthcare, but gladly give corporations all the public money/wealth they could possibly want while also allowing them to charge us for the “product” they create…
The add-on I linked is written and maintained by Mozilla and was updated as recently as Jul 6 of this year. The blog post you linked to is from 2021. If it wasn’t doing something more it seems like Mozilla would be wasting their time. I do admit to being too ignorant about everything it is doing and thats on me, so if anything your post has made me want to know more. Here’s the repo where it is being developed: https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook
My bank has Facebook and Adobe trackers on their website. I block them but it’s just so dumb that they do that. Obviously most people have no idea it’s happening.
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Holy shit why are these companies doing anything with Meta. This is super scary.
I don’t want anything to do with Meta, but now I can’t use pretty much any service without Meta getting my data anyway? I want off this ride.
Yikes. Side question- anyone know if GDPR protects against stuff like this?
We really need a way to protect our data in the US. (I know GDPR isn’t related to US)
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Yeah I meant it as a separate statement. Shit is whack in the US
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That shit makes me so angry it’s crazy… Socialism for the corporations, “rugged individualism” for the citizens…
Republicans will scream and cry about socialism when we discuss healthcare, but gladly give corporations all the public money/wealth they could possibly want while also allowing them to charge us for the “product” they create…
Seems like a great time to mention the Firefox Facebook Container add-on!
Pretty sure you don’t need the extension anymore. All cookies are now isolated on a per website basis…
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-protection/
The add-on I linked is written and maintained by Mozilla and was updated as recently as Jul 6 of this year. The blog post you linked to is from 2021. If it wasn’t doing something more it seems like Mozilla would be wasting their time. I do admit to being too ignorant about everything it is doing and thats on me, so if anything your post has made me want to know more. Here’s the repo where it is being developed: https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook
Me too tbh. I used to use the extension but removed it assuming it was no longer required.
I found this issue on the repo which seems to suggest there’s still a benefit to using both…
https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/issues/851
My bank has Facebook and Adobe trackers on their website. I block them but it’s just so dumb that they do that. Obviously most people have no idea it’s happening.