Bruce Schneier has an interesting short article on his news feed about URL tracking and Facebook.
Web browsers such as Firefox and Brave have the functionality to strip URL tracking data from the URLs you are using to navigate the web – stopping the company that was tracking you, tracking you. Now to thwart this privacy enhancing technology, Facebook is encrypting its URLs so the stripping technology cannot differentiate the various parts.
Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping – Schneier on Security
Privacy 0 – Facebook 1
Understanding privacy is the first step in understanding your security.
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
