Facebook (fbcdn.net)

“fbcdn.net is a domain owned by Facebook that is used as a domain for serving static content such as photos from a CDN.” – Source

Ethical design violations

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tracker

Monetises you.

Decentralised alternatives

Decentralised, free and open alternatives that adhere closer to the Ethical Design Manifesto:

Embed copies of content on your own sites instead of using the official widgets. This will also help decentralise the web.

Block rule

Although the content itself is allowed to load, we block cookies to make sure that it does not track people.

- trigger:
    - url-filter: fbcdn.net
    - unless-domain: fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net
- action:
    - type: block-cookies

Prevalence

Epidemic: found on 5.2% of surveyed sites (380 instances observed).

Notes

Facebook CDN is used when photos are embedded as content on other sites.

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