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Assuming it's implemented correctly, yes. The tracking should be opt-in, so by default none of it should happen until a positive opt-in is received from the user.

In practice, most are poorly implemented though so I wouldn't count on it. The solution is to lobby for proper GDPR enforcement and in the meantime defend yourself by using antimalware solutions such as uBlock Origin and blocking malicious domains/ASNs at the network level if you can (Facebook is entirely blocked on my network, so even if my blocker fails it won't be able to do anything).



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