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It has been reported to us on several fronts, so we take advantage of it to make an article on the spot! If you still have an account Facebook or if you visit it every now and then you will have realized that for a few days in order to visit it or log in you will be asked: do you want to accept i Cookies from Facebook about this Browsers? The alternatives you have are “I accept” or “I accept all”. What's the difference?
What are the Cookies we explain it very simply in ours dedicated article. Summary: to be able to log in somewhere it is mandatory to accept some Cookies, called Cookies first party. It is the method that uses the Browsers to be able to recognize you every time you browse the site. They are therefore generally mandatory and without them it is not possible to log in. However Facebook, as we already knew, inserts Cookies even just to browse your site. Thanks to these, Facebook will be able to know a lot about you and follow you around the web.
This is why there is no “Reject” among the options, because without i Cookies first-party sites, you just couldn't log in or browse their pages. The choice you are given is to accept or not further Cookies advertising and tracers. In fact, if you press the "I accept all" button you will also accept being profiled and helping Facebook earn better money with targeted advertising (as if Facebook didn't already know everything about us). If you instead press on "Manage data settings" without then selecting the "Controls" box you will only accept the Cookies mandatory for the visit.
This last option, therefore, is the preferred one.
Our main advice obviously is to delete your registration from Facebook. And possibly move on to alternative social networks such as Friendica or Mastodon, for example. But we know very well that it is not an alternative for everyone. Some people are almost forced to use it Facebook for the most varied reasons. Therefore, if you are forced to use it, the main advice is to use it Firefox with the extension Facebook Containers. It is an official Mozilla extension. This way you can accept whatever you want but Facebook it will be put in a real container separate from all your browsing. Whether to use Firefox we also recommend the extension Temporary Containers: will do the same thing but for any site visited!
The other alternatives are use Brave (to download it go to brave.com) which already has its own block of tracers.
For both Browsers there is also the extension I don't care about cookies. Always automatically accepts all Cookies, very useful especially if you have the good habit of deleting everything every time. You can find it for both Firefox that for Chrome/Brave.
Last piece of advice is to cancel always everything when the Browsers is closed. This you can do either with Firefox that with Brave. On Firefox just write the phrase in the address bar about:preferences#privacy and then go down to “Delete Cookies and website data at the closure of Firefox”.
On Brave instead you will have to do the same thing but by writing brave://settings/clearBrowserData, go to the “On Exit” tab and select everything you want (normally you select everything except Site Settings and Shields).
By doing this, everything you do between one session and another will not reconnect yours Browsers it will always be new every time you reopen it!
And on Android?
As we saw above Android you can use Frost. It is an application that acts as a web wrapper for Facebook. What does it mean? Which will open Facebook in a sort of way Browsers separated, this way you won't have to worry too much and you may not install the official Facebook application Why Frost It actually works very well as an alternative.
And on iOS?
Unfortunately for Apple there is nothing like it but you can always access Facebook only through a Browsers safe as for example DuckDuckGo Browsers!
If you want to know a little more about Facebook here are some of our articles about it:
- DuckDuckGo Trackers Radar, guess who filled the web with tracers?
- What do big companies know about us? An infographic to find out!
- Facebook follows you everywhere
- Without Facebook, a lot of apps break
- What does Facebook do with Giphy?
- Facebook, Instagram and censorship
- Facebook accuses Apple of protecting privacy too much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Privacy Redirect And UntrackMe to use alternative front ends
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