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Facebook iPhone Tracking Still a Risk: 4 Ways to Stop FB From Collecting Your Data
Facebook does its best to take your data by working its way around every loophole it could find in your Apple device.
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Facebook does its best to take your data by working its way around every loophole it could find in your Apple device.
The recently released App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14.5 does a great job of restricting web, app activity, and location tracking. Unfortunately, Facebook is also coming up with new ways to get your data.
In these last few months, news of Facebook s data breaching tendencies has flooded the internet. The social media platform does so because a majority of its revenue and income comes from digital advertising. This means that Facebook tries to collect as much data as it could about you so that it could customize a few advertisements to your interests. Businesses pay Facebook a huge amount monthly to advertise their services
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All of those obnoxious marketing emails that crowd your inbox aren’t just pushing a product. They’re also tracking whether you’ve opened the email, when you opened it, and where you were at the time by using software like MailChimp to embed tracking software into the message.
How does it work? A single tracking pixel is embedded into the email, usually (but not always) hidden within an image or a link. When the email is opened, code within the pixel sends the info back to the company’s server.