this is why I love Firefox. I can create a throw away profile, file my taxes, then delete that profile. I do this for a lot of sites. Social media has a separate profile from shopping, ect...
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Many many moons ago, I was traveling for business and I met a guy who worked for Meta. He worked in their online sales department for users. I thought to myself, "Why do you need that? Who would buy anything through Facebook?"
A lot of people, apparently.
Sadly Marketplace is booming. It’s all but killed Craigslist in my area and that seems to be the norm.
Funny that this is what meta gets investigated for when their data collection allows for the unjust prosecution of women who have the audacity to make a choice.
Hopefully FreeTaxUSA didn’t do this too.
There's a Senate report available in the article with their findings. You could check there. I didn't see FreeTaxUSA in other linked articles, but that doesn't mean they didn't do the same thing.
Could browser extensions such as Privacy Badger have prevented this? I know PB replaced social media icons and widgets on websites.