Facebook Watches Teens Online As They Prep for College – The Markup

“After signing into their ACT account, if a student accepted cookies on the following page, Facebook received details on almost everything they clicked on—including scrambled but identifiable data like their first and last name, and whether they’re registering for the ACT. The site even registered clicks about a student’s ethnicity and gender, and whether they planned to request college financial aid or needed accommodations for a disability”

FlavoredButtHair,
@FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world avatar

How can we block this kind of tracking?

FractalsInfinite, (edited )

Ublock origin and Facebook Container are a good start. I would recommend having a look through the most upvoted posts of this sub as well.

Obez,

I don’t think this is necessary anymore with total cookie protection being enabled by default blog.mozilla.org/…/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie…

penquin,

Will our government ever care about this shit and make it illegal one day?

Maeve,

A Scanner Darkly

Maeve,

Gotta see what demographics are doing what so they can hoard power, wealth, status.

Steamymoomilk,

Spooky facebook doing spooky things

Mac,

I’m always watching, Wazowski. Always watching.

possiblylinux127,

monster

cheese_greater,

How can I do that, like linking to an image and there being thumbnail so you don’thave to click it?

MigratingtoLemmy,

![img](link)

cheese_greater, (edited )

You’ve done well[You’ve done well]

[You’ve done well]

Edit: I FUCKING LOVE YOU, WAHOO!!!

Edit: is there any way to caption the text or abstract over displaying the link with the text you want go caption it as? Is that somehow possible?

MigratingtoLemmy, (edited )

I don’t think so. AFAIK there is no native method to caption images in markdown, which is what this editor uses. People try to bring about this effect by italicising the part they would want as a caption right underneath the image. However, in your case, I see a [You’ve done well] banner underneath the image, which I assume is the caption you meant. Not sure how that happened but if that works, great!

*some text* = some text

cheese_greater, (edited )

What do you think about my workaround I edited in? It works, however inelegantly

MigratingtoLemmy, (edited )

Hmm, I’m on my computer now and I can’t see the image for some reason.

Edit: sorry, just my browser. But why do I see two [You’ve done well]s?

cheese_greater,

U see it?!

MigratingtoLemmy,

Your reply to your comment above is better: just one italicised caption makes it easy to understand. Great job!

cheese_greater,

We did it Lemmy

We did it Lemmy

cheese_greater,

https://imgs.search.brave.com/X9CBT7CA3N4MJWH9tvWZQmNX6SkwESv2N7tTPmzEALs/rs:fit:500:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLmt5/bS1jZG4uY29tL3Bo/b3Rvcy9pbWFnZXMv/bmV3c2ZlZWQvMDAw/Lzk4Ny80MzQvOTQ0/LmpwZw

We did it Lemmy

cheese_greater, (edited )

You’ve done well

You’ve done well

cheese_greater,

We did it Lemmy

We did it Lemmy!

possiblylinux127,

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