ronguest
ronguest

Facebook found a new way to creep me out even though I deleted my account. Since last week graph.facebook.com is the top visited site on my network. Only my wife has an account and she uses it rarely. Rather than sniff this out I’m going to try blocking it. 😡

|
Embed
Progress spinner
kitt
kitt

@ronguest are you on macOS? If so, I recommend Little Snitch for network blocking, per app or system. I have FB blocked on all my systems with LS. My dad has it blocked at the network level, so the whole house is blocked when visiting him. YMMV.

|
Embed
Progress spinner
ronguest
ronguest

Thanks for the suggestions @kitt. LS is a good utility. No one here intentionally uses a Mac to access FB so I’m guessing it comes from an iOS device. For that I’d have to use Wireshark to try to identify the source. But as a first step I’ve used my DNS to block that site and I’ll see if the traffic goes away and if anything unexpectedly stops working. I checked the daily traffic reports and the number of hits on that domain are suspiciously consistent each day.

|
Embed
Progress spinner
kitt
kitt

@ronguest ah. How frustrating! I look forward to hearing about your sleuthing and solutions!

|
Embed
Progress spinner
In reply to
fcy
fcy

@ronguest have you looked into Pi-hole? I don’t have a local DNS on my network, but I want to add Pi-hole as my DNS

|
Embed
Progress spinner
ronguest
ronguest

@fcy I am aware of it but haven’t used it. I use OpenDNS to filter sites and combined with AdGuard it is good enough for me and needs no maintenance.

|
Embed
Progress spinner