Is there an easy way to remove it in total from my computer please?
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2 years ago
Removing facebook in total from my computer
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GIYF :-
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Set fire to it, then sit on it.
Why post such crap here? Go 'way.
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I cancelled mine when they banned Trump ...but don't log back in by mistake for a month or you will be back on ..
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Absolutely no surprise there. That you followed one of the most dishonest people in public life, outside 3rd world countries.
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I'm assuming you're talking of the website?
In which case follow this article; where you add the Facebook domain to the Windows Hosts file:
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It is a way of effectively blocking sites.
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I thought it was a web site so not 'on' your computer in the first place
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At one time there was a Windows App, but no longer available:
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Eh? It's simply another URL on my browser. Remove it from that address book and in practice it no longer exists.
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and delete all its related cookies so it can't track you aia every facebook "button" and script on third party web sites.
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To find out what other business have shared with them...
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except for the hundreds of websites with Facebook buttons on them
many of which will be silently [1] collecting data about you for storage on the FB server
Tim
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oh, and you can also turn off future "off-facebook" activity collection there as well (third parties will still send it, but the won't (they claim) link it to your account)
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I put a few entries in the Windows HOSTS file, to ensure I don't feed the machine too much data.
But I don't obsess about it, and they could easily add domains for tracking "non-customer". They track everybody, whether you use their service or not. That's why there are so many beacons on individual web pages. They pay sites to host such rubbish. When you block the facebook sites, you send less data to them when visiting totally unrelated sites.
There will be more than one of these lists around, so you can shop for the most-extensive one. Near the bottom.
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The purpose of the HOSTS file is to remap symbolic domains to non-existent IP addresses. For example, if you ran a local web server (IIS) on your machine, and did
127.0.0.1 somestupidcommercialsite.com
then your own web server would get the query intended for the commercial site. Thus, some thought goes into the form of the HOSTS entries.
The HOSTS file is cross-platform, but burbled up from UNIX to the others. There's a table of file system locations for storage of HOSTS, available here. Windows will have two file system locations, with Windows XP stored slightly differently than Vista+. Just a guess.
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Note that, on Windows 10, Microsoft bypasses HOSTS when it needs to visit vortex. There are a number of addresses you cannot bypass, to "starve" Microsoft. Just so you know. Every bucket must have holes in it.
Paul
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If a site you choose to visit passes on data to another, the solution is in your hands.
Which is your choice.
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loved him....
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the woke hated him...teehee
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It's good to see you got the inspiration from a post of mine some 6 hours ago. :-)
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127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 facebook.com 127.0.0.1
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127.0.0.1 error.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 api-read.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 api.facebook.com
127.0.0.1
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127.0.0.1 star.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 check6.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 api.connect.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 connect.facebook.net
127.0.0.1 developers.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 api.twitter.com
127.0.0.1 autotrader.ca
127.0.0.1
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127.0.0.1 districtm.io
I don't have a reliable datestamp on the file. And I didn't do a changelog inside, so can't tell that way.
That set has been there for a while.
It's possible the OS was installed 2016, but the HOSTS file may have been copied over from the wreck before it.
The wrecked OS partition is still around, the HOSTS file has the same list, the date is 2013. That means my token effort to blot out Facebook has been sitting there for about eight years or so.
You can tell from that, not very many sites generate enough interest, to get added. For Facebook, I made an exception.
Paul
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Its abit like Hotel California, you can check out any time you like but you can never leave. IE you will easily unsubscribe and block all emails but your content and usage lives on. Brian
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That is hardly helpful is it? I would ask a similar question, since as I say no matter how you get rid of it or do not actually use it or unsubscribe, you will find its still tracking you if you are not very careful.Remember its not Just Facebook, they own a lot of other companies now, and unless you change your ip address etc, you will be tracked. Most of that time it is of no consequence, but there does come a time when so much data on a given person is known, it is easy to identify them. Brian