I have a Facebook account, this creates limitations when it comes to blocking (e.g. I cannot use a DNS block/piHole).<p>What I found works for me is to use Multi-Account Containers with Facebook being forced-open in a specific container (that's only for Facebook) and then using Firefox's built in Content Blocking to block trackers in other containers (Content Blocking -> Custom -> In All Windows).<p>This allows you to use Facebook but makes it significantly harder for them to track you across other sites (via shadow accounts or your actual profile).<p>For example this works for Stackoverflow where I see:<p>> The resource at “<a href="https://graph.facebook.com/[xxxx]/picture?type=large”" rel="nofollow">https://graph.facebook.com/[xxxx]/picture?type=large”</a> was blocked because content blocking is enabled.<p>On mobile I simply don't install Facebook's apps and use the mobile web browser and still receive notifications via that.
I like self hosted avatars. From the title I thought SO purposefully lets Facebook track us, perhaps through a like button, but instead the complaint is that they don't have a domain blacklist on user avatars, which sounds silly to me.<p>I care about privacy but there are bigger fish to fry. This is not structural and hosting your own stuff (like your avatar) is a part of the old Internet I miss.
Seems like it would be a good idea to add crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="origin" attributes to user-provided images. This would prevent any 3rd party tracking or referrer leaking.
Stack Overflow does not honor Do Not Track [0] and in response to a question [1] indicated that they don't intend to do that either.<p>Tracking (including third-party tracking) seems like a feature.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track</a><p>[1] <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237062/does-stack-exchange-have-an-official-policy-on-honoring-do-not-track-browser-s" rel="nofollow">https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237062/does-stack-e...</a>
Of course, most all Web sites add in third-party tracking through HTTP requests, in one way or another. Offhand, HN is the only site that comes to mind as not doing that. (I've been working on anti-tracking for a long time, and my current hand-edited ruleset has over 10k rules, which I usually have to look at multiple times each day.)
That may be the "Microsoft buys GitHub" moment of StackOveflow: people realizing the power we gave to this private company and migrating to non-profit-managed website instead (like <a href="https://framagit.org" rel="nofollow">https://framagit.org</a>)<p>But I do not see a good alternative to StackOverflow available now.
I noticed this last week in my umatrix blocked domains. Its pretty terrible. Hopefully this gets reverted and doesn't signify the downfall of stack exchange because its a super important resource on the internet.
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