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By *litterbabe OP Woman
over a year ago
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I have my Facebook privacy settings on pretty strict and I haven't given it permission to upload or sync my contacts, yet it is still suggesting friends that I don't want to be able to contact me via Facebook, (or see my profile) and I really can't work out how or how to stop that because I can only also presume these people are getting the same suggestions about adding me.
A high proportion of the suggestions are not numbers I even have in my my contacts on my phone.
I'm finding it somewhat frustrating and a little bit worrying as my privacy is important.
Does anybody know how to change this so that I'm not suggested as a friend to other people unless I literally ask them to add me? |
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Omg had a similar conversation the other day in work..
I was chatting to a guy who was looking to a new car
An hour later Facebook showed me ads of the exact car ..
Had a chat to a lady on WhatsApp, Facebook showed me ads of exactly what we’d been talking about..
I thought I was going paranoid |
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"I’m sure Facebook users ur phone mic "
Me too. I was chatting to my wife about a particular handbag supplier, then adverts from that company appeared on my fb feed out of the blue. I did some research and facebook say they don't use the mic to listen in on conversations, but I definitely hadn't been to their site or googled handbags up to that point. It's happened on a few things now and it wouldn't surprise me at all if this comes out as some sort of privacy scandal at some point in the future. |
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"I’m sure Facebook users ur phone mic
Me too. I was chatting to my wife about a particular handbag supplier, then adverts from that company appeared on my fb feed out of the blue. I did some research and facebook say they don't use the mic to listen in on conversations, but I definitely hadn't been to their site or googled handbags up to that point. It's happened on a few things now and it wouldn't surprise me at all if this comes out as some sort of privacy scandal at some point in the future."
Similar things have happened to us.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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This happens all the time.. I can be having a conversation with someone about a certain topics, then I will have a news article about the very same thing... We're behind monitored everything we do. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I have my Facebook privacy settings on pretty strict and I haven't given it permission to upload or sync my contacts, yet it is still suggesting friends that I don't want to be able to contact me via Facebook, (or see my profile) and I really can't work out how or how to stop that because I can only also presume these people are getting the same suggestions about adding me.
A high proportion of the suggestions are not numbers I even have in my my contacts on my phone.
I'm finding it somewhat frustrating and a little bit worrying as my privacy is important.
Does anybody know how to change this so that I'm not suggested as a friend to other people unless I literally ask them to add me?"
It’s algorithmic. Facebook doesn’t need to gave your contacts to know that you know someone. They can guess through common friends, interests, locations you’ve been, groups you’ve joined, your bio, things you’ve been tagged in etc. and through that they’ll guess who you’re likely to know and vice versa.
It’s annoying but I think the only way to stop it is to leave Facebook |
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It's all just a very complex and worrying algorithm, the audio monitoring thing has been debuncted multiple times, and put to rest, what you should actually be worried about is the Facebook algo creators... Its rediculously scary how much data Facebook (and others) have on you. I don't use any of their apps personally, but I know Google is the same and use all theirs. Facebook is just a lot more visible because they have the social network exposing their knowledge of you all the time. Simple answer, don't want them to track you, stop using their products, want their products, tough luck they know you better than you do.
https://newatlas.com/computers/facebook-not-secretly-listening-conversations/ |
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By *litterbabe OP Woman
over a year ago
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I haven't put my number into Facebook, and I use an email that's not used for anything else.
I don't make myself interested in events or etc.
Some of the friends requests are people I know that in person I have never had contact with online.
It's really very freaky. |
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"I haven't put my number into Facebook, and I use an email that's not used for anything else.
I don't make myself interested in events or etc.
Some of the friends requests are people I know that in person I have never had contact with online.
It's really very freaky."
Remember though a huge proportion of the Web has tracking inserts for Facebook on them, any site with any sort of share or comment functionality will be going to Facebook, and some use what's called a Facebook pixle, on a pc press f12 on your favorite site, and check in the traffic logs how many calls grt sent to Facebook, you will be shocked.
I've got a dns server at home that blocks most of them (pi-hole) but that's not something everyone can setup. There is opendns and others that have a privacy focused setting section where some of it can be blocked if your willing to change your router/phones dns over etc. But honestly you don't ever have to go anywhere near Facebook.com to be tracked over the entire Internet |
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By *etro1940sCouple
over a year ago
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"I’m sure Facebook users ur phone mic
Me too. I was chatting to my wife about a particular handbag supplier, then adverts from that company appeared on my fb feed out of the blue. I did some research and facebook say they don't use the mic to listen in on conversations, but I definitely hadn't been to their site or googled handbags up to that point. It's happened on a few things now and it wouldn't surprise me at all if this comes out as some sort of privacy scandal at some point in the future."
Privacy is a rare thing in this era of enormous potential for tech ... we took on this burden when we sought the ease and efficiency of the digital revolution. |
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"WhatsApp have updated there rules.. we now use signal which is not connected to FB if you search the new WhatsApp rules it’s a bit worrying.."
Only outside of Europe/UK the new stuff they introduced doesn't technically affect Europe much, there's still some, but gdpr and the likes neutered it before it was introduced. Still scary the amount of stuff they do track though, and have been doing for years since they bought them! |
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"I’m sure Facebook users ur phone mic
Me too. I was chatting to my wife about a particular handbag supplier, then adverts from that company appeared on my fb feed out of the blue. I did some research and facebook say they don't use the mic to listen in on conversations, but I definitely hadn't been to their site or googled handbags up to that point. It's happened on a few things now and it wouldn't surprise me at all if this comes out as some sort of privacy scandal at some point in the future.
Privacy is a rare thing in this era of enormous potential for tech ... we took on this burden when we sought the ease and efficiency of the digital revolution. "
The old adage rings true, if it looks too good to be true, it is. If you don't pay for a product, then you are the payment... Just as simple as that |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Go into settings and turn off... off line tracking and adverts .
Not easy to find because they hide them well. Try youtube Facebook settings some good videos on there.
You can take full control but they don't like it so hide it. |
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By *litterbabe OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Go into settings and turn off... off line tracking and adverts .
Not easy to find because they hide them well. Try youtube Facebook settings some good videos on there.
You can take full control but they don't like it so hide it. "
That is off.
I don't put anything on there that I don't mind being your out there forever, but I really am surprised how little privacy there is and how easily tracked it appears we are |
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yes unless you have deliberately went in and turned off all the permissions in the app settings on your phone/device then it will listen to you and read your messages even know your location.
all the apps do it when you download them, they request access to x,y,z that most folk don't turn off one downloaded nor deny in the first place.
Big brother's watching you....
I don't have social media haha so they canny watch me..i'm an incognito ghosty |
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By *lex46TV/TS
over a year ago
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I'm pretty sure that if you meet someone and you both have your phones on you, Facebook recognises you've been in contact with them.
I've met people from here before and then a few days later they come up on my personal (male) Facebook page?? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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They do not listen to you. They track you using cookies, IP addresses, Mac addresses and various other bits of meta data. The only thing you can do to stop them doing it is to either stop using all internet connected devices or learn how to use secure channels like VPN combined with encrypted devices. Perhaps the tor network.
But most of all remember it’s too late. It’s not really gonna effect you. And there’s way sexier things we could be doing. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I have all the permissions set to not allow anything, my location, information, sharing etc, and yet the situation continues.
It's really quite interesting"
Do you have the Facebook app? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Dont facebook also own FAB too? 
What makes you think that?
Don't think it was a serious comment!"
My bad; i just (wrongly) assume that everything is either owned these days by Facebook, Google or Sydney Uni  |
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