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Block everything Meta too. Just because you don’t have an account doesn’t mean they’re not tracking you across various third party properties whether they’re apps or websites.
They make all their profit from consuming data about people so whether or not you have an account and visit their apps or websites is meaningless.
In fact while this article doesn’t have any assets from Meta it has 38 third-party trackers and 48 third-party cookies on it according to Blacklight including from big companies like Alphabet (Google), Amazon, LinkedIn, etc.
Those companies same companies have their assets included in apps and websites all over and everyone acts like it’s a mystery that Amazon will show you ads for pet products immediately after reading an article about dog shampoo. Alphabet even has tracking scripts on IRS websites with full access to the DOM — it doesn’t matter if you stopped using Google or Google products.