You visited a website that had a Facebook tracker.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024
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8 attempts means you opened a single page then you went to see the report. DDG isn't doing deep packet inspection and can't distinguish which traffic is coming directly from the app logic and what is just the result of the user browsing a page. Also with "known to collect name, dob, city", ddg has no idea of the content, it just blocked the encrypted request. It could have been an embedded Facebook post in a page you visited, or a tracking pixel, but it's not Mull reporting to Facebook all that information
You’re surprised?
The text at the bottom should be worded differently. This is not the app Mull tracking you.
Why is this posted in the Firefox community?
And is this the first time OP has heard about tracking?
The mind boggles.
Mull is a privacy focused Firefox fork for Android. I don't think DivestOS has a presence here, though they do on Mastodon.
Due to DDG's incorrect wording it is easy to see that someone might be confused and think Mull/Firefox was tracking them.
We all started somewhere, I think it is fine here.
Facebook, and other GAFAM tracking is insidious, many do not know this, or are just learning it.
Doesn't boggle my mind to understand the rate of understanding such displayed attempt being conducted must be actively denied by the browser and their knowledge of how to protect themselves in the digital world.
Even I know better than trust firefox a hair let alone even customized to the bottom settings. Even on Librewolf you have to really back it up properly.
I don't know if cookie promts are a thing outside EU but I always spend a few seconds refusing them. It's like a distopian minigame every time I want to access a website because some are more tricky than others. But I am amazed at how many "legitimate interests" they can have
Some of them share data with over 3.000 other partners or ventors and I don't even use shady sites! (new York Times had 3.170 vendors last time I checked)
It's not required in my part of the US, but we get them anyway. It turns out it's a lot easier to just turn it on for everyone instead of figuring out who the EU residents are (esp since an EU citizen could easily use a VPN).
And yeah, I do exactly the same. I also use an ad blocker and other privacy settings, so I'm guessing most of the stuff there is blocked regardless, so I mostly hope they'll look at the cookie data and realize people hate that nonsense.
May I suggest ublock origin?
I do use it, that's part of the reason I was shocked
Yes, that would have blocked it. RethinkDNS would have blocked it earlier, then they could get rid of ddg
Where have you been and how’d you end up on Lemmy?
Is OP (internet) famous? Or do I entirely misread your question?
It's probably that Lemmy isn't exactly mainstream (like Reddit), suggesting that people on Lemmy aren't normally oblivious to the ways of the internet. And most people on the fediverse are more adverse to the centralised mainstream social media companies.
Using Firefox would back up this assumption.
And that it has been widely known for a long time that Facebook tracks/collects/processes anything/everything it can get it's grubby hands on.
So, it reads - to me - along the lines of "how are you participating in the fediverse (suggesting some decent knowledge of internet/computer things) without knowing that Facebook is going to try and get everything (common knowledge) and that Firefox is going to try to prevent this (which is a prominent reason to use Firefox)"
I should have realised this is what Willya meant lol.
Someone clueless about Facebook data mining its users shouldn’t have made their way here in my opinion so I’m curious about the journey.
How are you at all surprised by these permissions? It's the fucking Facebook app.
Also why is this posted on Firefox? It's the duckduckgo app...
Come on people...
Edit: I didn't know Mull was a Firefox fork. I apologize.
It is DDG reporting on Facebook trackers coming from Mull activity. Mull is a Firefox fork.
I did not know that. Thank you for correcting me.
Last name lol