I started blocking Meta with NextDNS. Zuck is a creepy piece of shit who belongs in prison. If you want to resolve his domains it’s not happening on my networks or devices ever again.
Did you set it up on your router level? I thought I’d have to set it up device by device
PiHole and AdGuard are both easy to setup servers for network wide DNS blocking. (Homenetworking)
NextDNS is an external entity that allows you to setup DNS blocking on devices that support DoT, DoH, and occasionally plaintext DNS. (For your phone and other mobile devices)
iPhones and Androids both support DoT while Firefox (and likely most modern browsers) supports DoH.
If you don’t want to rely on an external entity, you could use a wire guard split tunnel to block your ads away from your home network. Additionally you can set up a VPS and self host your DNS server there.
If you can block all DNS traffic on you router, you can them redirect it to your own DNS server.
And PiHole seems to be the one many people use for that. Lots of guides for it, pre-made list on what to block etc.
Interesting that they don’t mention using things like Firefox’s Facebook Container (which essentially puts Facebook trackers in jail) or just outright deleting your Meta accounts. Harder to track what you’re not engaged with.
If you’re actually mad at Meta, do yourself a favor and delete your account; join the Fediverse instead. Friendica is the analog replacement for Facebook, and Pixelfed is the replacement for Instagram. There, EFF. I improved your article.
And if you know someone that says, “BuT mY fRiEnDs ArE aLL tHeRe!” tell them to stop being a whiny little baby and make new friends.
I like to scare people that they will be “the parents still on facebook” if they won’t abandon corporate social media.
I used three Meta products:
Whatsapp, Facebook Marketplace, and Instagram. I’ve completely gone off Insta, I only really used it to see posts and reels my friends sent me.
I don’t really know an alternative to WhatsApp and Marketplace that I can use. I’m very careful to not interact with any Facebook advertisements on Marketplace though.
Signal is the non-corporate replacement for What’s App although realistically you end up having both due to network effects.
Signal is great. Think I read that WhatsApp will be forced to allow interoperability with other apps. Would be great if you could use Signal to access chats that started on WhatsApp. Fuck Zuckerberg. Whatsapp the only Meta app I use and only because the bastards bought it
This is what is happening to me, I can’t force my folks to drop WhatsApp. Only a few have Signal
Yeah, same, can’t get my friends to quit WA
Exactly for me, but some group chats on Messenger.
It’s not as simple as it sounds. In some countries it is only possible to do income tax online, and often these sites are full of spyware, telemetry and analytics from Google, Facebook and others
You might benefit from firefoxes Facebook containers extension that prevents cross site Facebook tracking :)
I do not agree with the security and privacy policies that Mozilla has adopted, I do not use and do not support the use of any Gecko-based browsers, extensions or anything else. I use virtual machines for every sensitive website I have to access, as well as VPN and DNS blockers. It’s a bit inconvenient but I’ve forced myself to adapt to modern dystopia
Neat.
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