TIP! Easy Way to Prevent Facebook Tracking by heminder, journal
TIP! Easy Way to Prevent Facebook Tracking
Facebook surveils everyone's web browsing regardless of whether they have an account or not, as described in this paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1717563
A simple way to prevent any packets being sent to or received from Facebook from your hardware is to set up filtering using iptables, a kernel-level firewall. On most GNU and Linux distributions, you can run the following three commands as root:
iptables -A INPUT -d facebook.com -j DROP
iptables -A OUTPUT -d facebook.com -j DROP
iptables -A FORWARD -d facebook.com -j DROP
The URL can be changed for other sites as well if you wish. Eg - for Twitter's "tweet" buttons run the same commands