Comment on Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months agoI think “metal pixel” has just become what they call their trackers, not that its an actual pixel any longer. I could be wrong but I’ve heard references to the “meta pixel” for enough years after most companies switch to JS or other methods that I jumped to conclusions.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I so want to build a proxy that strips stuff like this, host it on a RPi with PiHole. Maybe a proxy could essentially apply a filtering CSS?
Do enterprise level firwalls/IDS/IPS have some capability Ike this? Seems it would be the thing to do, ensuring some security against phishing.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
You can find routers and what not with various PiHole like software. If you’re comfortable with network engineering then you can certainly write NACLs and the like to blacklist tracking networks.
Stopping them at the browser level is also reasonably effective. EFF’s Privacy Badger is a must have extension for me.