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Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:57:31 +0200

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Indeed: challenge accepted!

Soren Stoutner wrote the following post Thu, 28 Jul 2022 14:43:36 +0200

Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping - gHacks Tech News – https://www.ghacks.net/2022/07/17/facebook-has-started-to-encrypt-links-to-counter-privacy-improving-url-stripping/

“There is no option currently to prevent Facebook's tracking of users via links. Users could avoid Facebook, but that may not be possible all the time.”

Challenge accepted!

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Thu, 28 Jul 2022 16:51:52 +0200

V. T. Eric Layton

vtel57@diasp.org

...avoid Facebook.

No problem. I've been avoiding FB and Twitter since their inception.

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 16:59:33 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

I never click on Facebook links, not even if someone has stripped all the tracking shite from the URL. There are place on this world where I won't go, period.

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 19:39:40 +0200

Tanja

tanja@hubzilla.lazyteddy.eu

I can recommend this list:
https://www.github.developerdan.com/hosts/lists/facebook-extended.txt

It's one of the lists I'm using for AdAway on LineageOS, and I copied the hosts file generated by AdAway to my Linux desktop and laptop.

This list includes WhatsApp and Instagram.

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:32:45 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Ah, I know that list, I used it in my Pyhole years ago. Nice list!

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 14:14:33 +0200

Tanja

tanja@hubzilla.lazyteddy.eu

@Hans van Zijst Can't do that because my guy still uses Facebook and WhatsApp. Maybe I should do it anyway. "Oh, Facebook doesn't work...? 🤔 No idea why that could be..." 😂

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:50:52 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Systeemkabouter 🇪🇺 🌻🇺🇦 That's what I did too, back in the days: DHCP gave out the Pyhole for DNS, but you could always configure your system to use the "real" recursor.