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TaxSlayer, H&R Block, and TaxAct embedded Meta’s pixel onto their tax filing sites.

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[–] Eggyhead@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Fredsshilksirt@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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...

[–] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tophu@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Sadly Marketplace is booming. It’s all but killed Craigslist in my area and that seems to be the norm.

[–] SpaceMonk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tax prepping businesses should be outlawed.

[–] Sendbeer@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Congress was looking at having the IRS send out pre filled out tax forms to you that you could just look over and sign if it looked ok. Like many other countries do. Guess which industry lobbied against it?

[–] aseriesoftubes@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully FreeTaxUSA didn’t do this too.

[–] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] spacedancer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Could browser extensions such as Privacy Badger have prevented this? I know PB replaced social media icons and widgets on websites.