[tankenmate]

I have blocked all of FB's allocated networks worldwide on my machine (via a look up of allocated IP space and fed into iptables / ipset).[0] So FB doesn't even get "phantom" traffic from me (indirect traffic from FB logos / js on random websites). I only log into FB a few times a year and only via a temporary VPS in another country and using an incognito browser tab.

So now FB has taken to emailing me complaining that they are missing me and that I should log in.

:)

WAYNE: I don't own A gun let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack. STACEY: You know Wayne if you're not careful you're gonna lose me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15222936

EDIT: fixed link to go direct to the comment

[kuschku]

I know a few people that completely block every IP range owned by Google, Amazon, or Facebook.

Most of that works fine, sometimes some shitty websites are on AWS or GCP or load JS frameworks from their CDNs, but the worst is:

You can't connect from Android to their WiFi anymore.

Android pings a Google server, if it can't open a connection, it immediately disconnects. In Android 8.1, there's no way around that anymore. You can try every setting in the WiFi settings, and it won't change a thing.

[tankenmate]

Can the response be faked?

[kuschku]

Probably, considering that domain is HTTP only, but why is this even necessary?

Sometimes I do want to connect to a local network without internet.

[tankenmate]

Oh I agree, it is a very one size fits all fallacy kind of mistake.

[tankenmate]

I always enjoy a wee chuckle to myself every time I get down voted on HN for expressing humour; I feel like a modern common man G.B.S.

'My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.'