If you want to disable facebook tracking out of facebook in the future, it's possible on this link: https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/future_activi...

EDIT: the link doesn't seem to work, so you can click on "Manage Future Activity" => "Manage Future Activity" in the popup => Disable "Future Off-Facebook Activity"

You might not want to disable this completely, because it can be a useful tool to identify data leaks (similar to Troy Hunt's haveibeenpwned.com).

My off-Facebook activity had zero entries and I want to keep it that way. If they ever associate something with me I want to be alerted to the fact.

Mine had exactly one entry. And I won’t be doing business with that company anymore. No way am I disabling this. It’s too useful.

One warning it gives me:

> We will still receive future activities from companies and organisations you visit. These might be used for analytics and to improve our advertising systems, but will not be connected to your account.

(Translated from Dutch because for some reason Facebook figured I'd want this particular message in Dutch.)

Extrapolation: "Account" here means the Facebook account created by you and visible to you; probably distinct from "Profile" in their lingo, which is all the data they have on you, of which most is invisible to you. If this is true, that's not an opt-out for data collection, just a choice to keep that info from showing in your account while merrily continuing to build your profile.

I mean, they’ve already been shown to keep every tiny nugget of data, this feels more like “we won’t give anyone else tools to see that it’s you” instead of “we’ll anonymize it sufficiently”

Before you disable it, the site warns you that "This will also prevent you from logging into apps and websites with Facebook because your activity will be disconnected from your account." This annoys me, because Facebook login is actually quite convenient, and they've gone and bundled it with lots of random third-party tracking. Nothing technically required them to do this -- they could surely offer it as a separate feature.

This kind of work shows a great direction for the future of web development. It's true that the HN community might be more incline to programming than others, however this library makes building web pages user friendly while still keeping it close to the language. Also, huge props to Lea Verou who's been notable at working on improving the web and CSS!

What I really like in their video is that it's a girl who is building the speaker. As a male software engineer, it's really refreshing to see companies do their best to bring more diversity into our field.