Stack Overflow lets Facebook track users across their sites

I have a Facebook account, this creates limitations when it comes to blocking (e.g. I cannot use a DNS block&#x2F;piHole).<p>What I found works for me is to use Multi-Account Containers with Facebook being forced-open in a specific container (that&#x27;s only for Facebook) and then using Firefox&#x27;s built in Content Blocking to block trackers in other containers (Content Blocking -&gt; Custom -&gt; 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>&gt; The resource at “<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graph.facebook.com&#x2F;[xxxx]&#x2F;picture?type=large”" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graph.facebook.com&#x2F;[xxxx]&#x2F;picture?type=large”</a> was blocked because content blocking is enabled.<p>On mobile I simply don&#x27;t install Facebook&#x27;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&#x27;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=&quot;anonymous&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;origin&quot; attributes to user-provided images. This would prevent any 3rd party tracking or referrer leaking.

Install Privacy Badger.<p>&quot;Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;privacybadger" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;privacybadger</a>

Stack Overflow does not honor Do Not Track [0] and in response to a question [1] indicated that they don&#x27;t intend to do that either.<p>Tracking (including third-party tracking) seems like a feature.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Do_Not_Track" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Do_Not_Track</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;237062&#x2F;does-stack-exchange-have-an-official-policy-on-honoring-do-not-track-browser-s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;237062&#x2F;does-stack-e...</a>

Won&#x27;t the privacy filterlists in uBlock Origin fix this?

I believe that one day boycott will help them reconsider these practices.

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&#x27;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.)

Firefox’s containers really should be a standard browser feature at this point.

That may be the &quot;Microsoft buys GitHub&quot; 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:&#x2F;&#x2F;framagit.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;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&#x27;t signify the downfall of stack exchange because its a super important resource on the internet.

What options does a Safari user have to prepare for war on the web?

Collection of tools to protect privacy online.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.privacytools.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.privacytools.io</a>

Just start saying really inappropriate things into the microphones that are not there... LOL