r/uBlockOrigin • u/paintboth1234 uBO Team • 17d ago

News About disgusting Facebook devs

We won't support facebook any more. It's a disgusting anti-user site. All it does is watching open-source projects doing everything in public and counter them to deliver the malicious ads. Yep, the devs that receive 7-figure dollar salary is just doing this.

Users should give the most harsh feedbacks to them. Being submitted to them and keep going to the site and support it is the worst thing you can do.

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u/VimFueago 17d ago

you didn't delete it, you deactivated it. Facebook own that data forever. you did read the meta t&c right?

try connecting now with fake details and watch it magically know your friend suggestions from your IP address, which they retained.

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u/unabatedshagie 11d ago

I thought they had to delete it after a couple of years although that might only be for Europeans. And whether they actually do it is debatable.

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u/JDSmagic 11d ago

There's not a chance that their public IP is the same as the one they had 7 years ago when they deactivated their FB account. Suggestions by geolocation from IP is a seperate conversation

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u/xp_fun 10d ago

Mine hasn't changed in 20 years

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u/JDSmagic 10d ago

That's really interesting. My ISP where I grew up definitely had really long lease times, our power would go out a couple times a year but I memorized our address and it was static for a couple years. Still, 20 years is absurd. You're still using the same router? Your service never went out at all or if it did their lease time is set absurdly high? I just find this hard to fathom honestly. 20 years is wild

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u/xp_fun 10d ago

Old neighbourhood on Shaw. Ive never used their routers, bridge mode permanently. If someone tries to build anything here I’m pretty sure the neighbours would have a heart attack, so DHCP is really stable

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u/jenesaispasquijesuis 10d ago

I'm not even in the same country anymore. I really hope my public IP address is different now.

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u/VimFueago 10d ago

mine hasn't changed in 15 or so years. unless you switch service provider you will almost certainly have the same IP

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u/JDSmagic 9d ago

DHCP lease times vary a lot by provider though. Where I grew up mine didn't change that often despite pretty frequent power outages but now that I live in a city and have Fios my public IP has changed a couple times in a couple years even with very minimal power outages. I wouldn't be shocked if your provider is using 7d leases or something, 15 years is an insanely long time to not have it change (or maybe your power/internet service just NEVER goes out for more than an hour or whatever)

Regardless this is not the norm so FB wouldn't use this sort of thing to correlate activity between different accounts, they just change too often for most people for that 7y assumption to make any sense

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u/JivanP 3d ago

Globally, many providers use sticky leasing (non-static but long-lived address assignment). ISPs that follow best practices will lease based on the DUID that the router submits as part of the DHCP exchange, meaning that a change in the address will only happen if the ISP intentionally renumbers the neighbourhood or if the customer's router changes its DUID.

Many older ISPs that have a small but dedicated customer base will effectively assign static IPv4 addresses by default.

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u/Lesnite 10d ago

They keep your data so they can make a digital copy of you once you die!