Asklemmy

Tell those local businesses that you really want to support and follow them, but that you boycott Meta and the reasons that you do.

Honestly there's so many reasons businesses should also avoid Meta, like the fact Meta is literally collecting and selling their most valuable business data about their customers to other competing businesses. Tell them for their own good that Meta is not their friend, it might help them at first to get exposure, but only long enough to get that data and sell it off to a bigger fish.

Heh. I explicitly DON'T and I feel it's those businesses and people's problem. There are other methods. Not everyone uses Facebook.

I refuse.

Check the facebook conrainer app for firefox

First of all, figure out your threat model. What data are you trying to keep secret from Facebook? What will happen to you if Facebook gets that data? What lengths are reasonable to prevent that outcome?

Then figure out how to consistently prevent that data from leaking.

I don't want Facebook knowing my address, name, age, and face - basically I don't want to be doxxed. I'm not willing to go through the effort of hiding my IP, so I'm willing to give up on that, but the others are easy enough to lie about.

I haven't used it but Firefox has containers to allow you to separate your browsing activities which are isolated from each other. You need to install the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension in order to use them.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Facebook has ghost profiles of non Facebook users because of tracking embedded in “like” buttons on websites. If you wanted to go full paranoid I would suggest using an extension to change your user agent. But it is probably worth identifying the specific threat vectors you are concerned about.

Don't use any real data and do as little as possible, but that strongly depends on the level of interacting you want to do.

This is extremely relevant to me as well.

I need even less interaction than most. I just need to check a private group I'm part of for events. Any way to extract that info into something else nicely?

I see the recommendations for FBPurity and the Firefox container, both of which I'll use on desktop. I was hoping for something for mobile too but just desktop is probably fine

Use a different browser profile entirely. I'd also reccomend LibreWolf because there's better fingerprinting protection, to help stop them from connecting dots between your other browser profiles.

Maybe a throwaway email address and use TAILS as an anonymiser which also manages the cookie cleanup. Every network session is a new clean invocation.

Maybe try using Librewolf with the Facebook container add-on?

Does Facebook still have an official onion url?

What would make you unsafe? What data do you want to keep away from Facebook?