How can I be totally invisible to Facebook?
Solution 1:
You can block all facebook trackers using Ghostery (works best in firefox) . If you prefer to load Facebook plugins anonymously use Priv3 (another firefox extension)
Solution 2:
You can also modify your hosts file to point www.facebook.com (and another facebook's hostnames) to 127.0.0.1.
Solution 3:
A. Firewall Blacklist.
I find it is always useful to have a Firewall Blacklist list in place so that I can easily add sites to it (or even automated entries if there was a need). Much for the same reasons as you. I get that feeling whenever I look at the logs.
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This also allows you to cut traffic both going to and coming from Facebook.
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This involves no third-party apps and terminates the requests. Following good security practice (OpenBSD-flavor), a process (in this case connection request) that is "mis-behaving" should be terminated.
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Also, there is a grey line between all the third-party sites that might be associated with it or some other social media site. No need to limit yourself to Facebook.
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This solution offers you fine-grained control. Which is appropriate for someone with specific needs.
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This is also a solution that is secure and should not change over time as it is not a hack or part or an unusual configuration. It is what you would expect, where you would expect it.
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This solution in itself is very portable and very forward-compatible. All you need is the list.
A. Use an enterprise-style blacklist.
Let other people find all the redundant addresses and make updates...
Blocking Facebook is a common thing to do in enterprises. You can find a number of other interesting categories such as "spyware" that would be useful without limiting the information you actually want.
- You can augment your blacklist with categories from a cost-free, updated public blacklist such as the ones at shallalist.de.
( Click "Download" next to "md5" )