Quote: (06-27-2016 05:26 PM)birthday cat Wrote:
Quote: (06-27-2016 02:41 PM)XXL Wrote:
I don't see what the big deal is anyway. All it takes is to have an account under fake nickname, use photo of you without your face as profile picture and not fill out any personal data in the about you sections. All the data facebook will quietly collect about you will be details about a person named johnny bravo who has a profile picture on which he stands in the mountain with his back turned.
How can that harm your privacy?
I wish it was that simple but these companies probably have technology that is more advanced than we realize. Facebook owns Instragram, Whatsapp and has purchased over 50 other companies. If you leak any of your personal information into any of those platforms then they can probably connect all of your fake accounts to the real you.
I think Google is a bigger problem than FB. It's easy to get away from Google search, gmail and android mobile devices but Google is entrenched in the web in many places we don't realize either. Youtube is owned by Google and there isn't a viable alternative because most of the videos on Youtube aren't available anywhere else.
I'm not a computer guy so maybe someone else can address this but I think Google can track you on this forum when youtube videos are embedded in the thread you are reading.
I'm a big believer in doing what you can, not worrying about the rest. So let's just focus on some actionable stuff.
Facebook
- Don't install any Facebook apps (this is the main way they link your WhatsApp and Facebook accounts together)
- Don't give them your real phone number
- Limited info on your profile
- Log into it using a VPN/Tor
Google
- Swap all the Google services you use (some resources for that
here)
- Self-Destructing Cookies + Privacy Badger to block Google tracking you around the web
- Use a VPN that you've never logged into a Google account. If you need to use an account for whatever reason always use it on a separate browser and not that VPN
- For embedded YouTube videos, they can see only who you are if you're logged into YouTube whilst watching them. Otherwise it's just an IP address as well as the referrer (URL of the forum post)