As I have no Facebook account, nor any interest in it, I've blocked the various Facebook website addresses at the border of my network using the excellent Pihole, so nothing can ever get to them from any device.
Out of interest, I've just looked at my "dashboard" in the blocking product.
There have been 138 failed attempts to get to Facebook sites across 15 devices in the last 24 hours, with a total of five sites deliberately visited (here, the BBC, Google, Tesco and Pistonheads). Some of the attempts came from my phone, which has been on standby all day, with no apps in the foreground at all.
It's pretty invasive.
However, Facebook is only ninth out of the top ten in my blocked sites list. Total attempts to blocked sites in that 24 hours, all of which are just ads or other unwanted junk, has been 19% of my total network traffic, which is about what I normally see - 4571 queries blocked, from 23579 requests.
So if I'm getting nigh on 150 Facebook "attempts" from a non account holding person with no trace of the product on any device, most of which are entirely idle, I hate to imagine what it's like if it's either unblocked, or worse, you actually have an account as well.
Last edited by: Crankcase on Thu 26 Nov 20 at 15:41
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