Regarding [1], it is possible to opt out of facebook: don't visit websites with Facebook like/share buttons. (This website, for example). When you access a website with facebook tracking installed, you are consenting to being tracked.
Yet websites try again and again to load the facebook like button.
As per GDPR, which is in effect but not enforced until May, tracking me without explicitly and clearly asking me if that is okay is not allowed and anything else, like withdrawing service until I agree to be tracked, does not construct consent.
When I visit a new website I do not know if they have facebook like buttons. I have to load the page to check that and without a script or ad blocker I will also load the like button and facebook will track that.
At which point in that process did I consent to any and all scripts on that webpage leeching of my personal data?
>don't VISIT websites with Facebook like/share buttons.
So people should know a site uses Facebook share buttons before opening it through Google search. Then, they should keep closing pages until they find the one that don't have share buttons. Then, memorize a list of "safe sites?"
Besides, the GDPR is clearly not allowing things like that. It has to be consent given and I have to be aware that I gave consent. It is not ok to use implicit consent. Checkbox or it didn't happen.
zaarn|8 years ago
Yet websites try again and again to load the facebook like button.
As per GDPR, which is in effect but not enforced until May, tracking me without explicitly and clearly asking me if that is okay is not allowed and anything else, like withdrawing service until I agree to be tracked, does not construct consent.
When I visit a new website I do not know if they have facebook like buttons. I have to load the page to check that and without a script or ad blocker I will also load the like button and facebook will track that.
At which point in that process did I consent to any and all scripts on that webpage leeching of my personal data?
dingaling|8 years ago
Take that up with the websites, not Facebook.
Vast numbers of websites use Google Web Fonts which enables Google to track users. I didn't opt in to that so I just block it.
vezycash|8 years ago
So people should know a site uses Facebook share buttons before opening it through Google search. Then, they should keep closing pages until they find the one that don't have share buttons. Then, memorize a list of "safe sites?"
Moru|8 years ago
CaptainZapp|8 years ago
Moru|8 years ago
Bury it in long legalese isn't accepted either.
paxys|8 years ago
ionised|8 years ago