facebook gets boring

  On 9/22/2011 at 7:32 PM, tauboo said:

guy at wrrk was saying he quit his facebook (after someone said they unintentionally woke up an hour early and spent the hour on facebook), "i must be the only person in the world to quit facebook! that's how much i hate facebook, i quit!" .. nobody really responded and then he said "all these businesses keep asking for your personal details and then they send you stuff.".. someone replied "i haven't given my details to businesses. i use it to look at my families photos and stuff.". hmmmm

he probably sent this out as a tweet afterwards

Set your Facebook language (at the bottom of the page) to "English (Pirate)"

Its pretty good.

'facebook ceases to be cool' thread

Zuckerberg announces that Facebook is going to integrate with Spotify and NetFlix to create some sort of media hub. His vision is that rather than actually going on the internet and looking at all your favourite websites, finding new stuff and shopping around, everyone will just go on Facebook and nothing else.

  On 9/22/2011 at 8:56 PM, zazen said:

Set your Facebook language (at the bottom of the page) to "English (Pirate)"

 

Its pretty good.

indeed, i had mine set to that for over a year. someone went to a lot of trouble coming up with all those awesome translations

facebook tracking article from zdnet

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Facebook has had privacy issues for a long time, and whilethe company has been working to improve its image, today’s episode will likely set it back once again. Thanks to a modified cookie, Facebook allegedly knows what you’re doing online even when you’re not logged in.

At least that’s what self-proclaimed hacker Nik Cubrilovic claims. After running a series of tests analyzing the HTTP headers on requests sent by browsers to facebook.com, he discovered that Facebook alters its tracking cookies the moment you log out, instead of deleting them. Since your uniquely identifying account information is still present in these cookies, Facebook can continue to track you, Cubrilovic argues.

This means that if you log out of Facebook, you’re not really doing much. If you then head to a website that contains a Facebook plugin, your browser will continue to send personally identifiable information back to Palo Alto. Here’s Cubrilovic’s explanation:

With my browser logged out of Facebook, whenever I visit any page with a Facebook like button, or share button, or any other widget, the information, including my account ID, is still being sent to Facebook. The only solution to Facebook not knowing who you are is to delete all Facebook cookies. You can test this for yourself using any browser with developer tools installed. It is all hidden in plain sight.

link

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I am a Facebook engineer that works on these systems and I wanted to say that the logged out cookies are used for safety and protection including: identifying spammers and phishers, detecting when somebody unauthorized is trying to access your account, helping you get back into your account if you get hacked, disabling registration for a under-age users who try to re-register with a different birthdate, powering account security features such as 2nd factor login approvals and notification, and identifying shared computers to discourage the use of “keep me logged in.”

Also please know that also when you’re logged in (or out) we don’t use our cookies to track you on social plugins to target ads or sell your information to third parties. I’ve heard from so many that what we do is to share or sell your data, and that is just not true. We use your logged in cookies to personalize (show you what your friends liked), to help maintain and improve what we do, or for safety and protection.

So whilst they admit that there is stuff going on after you have logged out. They say that they aren't using it to track you. loz.

so?

i find tracking cookies from all sorts of sites on my computer, cracked.com and mediafire are among them as well. wat a world

  On 9/26/2011 at 4:04 PM, delet... said:

facebook tracking article from zdnet

 

  Quote

Facebook has had privacy issues for a long time, and whilethe company has been working to improve its image, today’s episode will likely set it back once again. Thanks to a modified cookie, Facebook allegedly knows what you’re doing online even when you’re not logged in.

At least that’s what self-proclaimed hacker Nik Cubrilovic claims. After running a series of tests analyzing the HTTP headers on requests sent by browsers to facebook.com, he discovered that Facebook alters its tracking cookies the moment you log out, instead of deleting them. Since your uniquely identifying account information is still present in these cookies, Facebook can continue to track you, Cubrilovic argues.

This means that if you log out of Facebook, you’re not really doing much. If you then head to a website that contains a Facebook plugin, your browser will continue to send personally identifiable information back to Palo Alto. Here’s Cubrilovic’s explanation:

With my browser logged out of Facebook, whenever I visit any page with a Facebook like button, or share button, or any other widget, the information, including my account ID, is still being sent to Facebook. The only solution to Facebook not knowing who you are is to delete all Facebook cookies. You can test this for yourself using any browser with developer tools installed. It is all hidden in plain sight.

link

 

facebook replied ..

 

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I am a Facebook engineer that works on these systems and I wanted to say that the logged out cookies are used for safety and protection including: identifying spammers and phishers, detecting when somebody unauthorized is trying to access your account, helping you get back into your account if you get hacked, disabling registration for a under-age users who try to re-register with a different birthdate, powering account security features such as 2nd factor login approvals and notification, and identifying shared computers to discourage the use of “keep me logged in.”

Also please know that also when you’re logged in (or out) we don’t use our cookies to track you on social plugins to target ads or sell your information to third parties. I’ve heard from so many that what we do is to share or sell your data, and that is just not true. We use your logged in cookies to personalize (show you what your friends liked), to help maintain and improve what we do, or for safety and protection.

  On 9/26/2011 at 4:26 PM, luke viia said:

i find tracking cookies from all sorts of sites on my computer, cracked.com and mediafire are among them as well. wat a world

Yeah I often wonder where to draw the line. I set Chrome to reject all cookies but it won't let me use gmail so .. am I supposed to quit gmail as well? I will let other people worry about this stuff and keep my sanity thanks.

Don Draper pitches Facebook Timeline

http://kottke.org/11...cebook-timeline

Asked to have mine permanently deleted the other day. I know they'll still have it, but they wont be getting anymore info off me.

facebook is nuts. its addictive for one, but i find i delete people over infractions in real life. like im a god. then these people act like its a personal insult. facebook is not real life. people not commenting or responding to my PM's is worse than what people do say