> Everything Facebook knows about me is something I or my friends entered (i.e. via tagging).
No. If person x is logged into facebook, they (or rather you, as it seems you work for facebook) get an indication of every page person x is browsing that has a "like" button, whether that person presses it or not. Furthermore, even if you're logged out of facebook, there's still a couple of facebook cookies identifying the computer you've logged in from.
I'm not sure I would you believe the claim that Facebook is not using any of that info right now, but I'd probably call you an outright fraud if you said that this data is never ever going to be used for anything.
Same way for Google, BTW - they've had a better track record of not abusing the data they have, but it is possibly because we haven't heard the gory details yet, and it is not going to stay that way when their profits take a dip if they ever do - they are in it for the money, and that data is worth a lot of money.
For those reasons, my firefoxen run ABP, RequestPolicy and/or Ghostery, AND I have multiple users for job / personal / porn browsing (and other measures), and multiple browsers (chromes, firefox versions) for de-panopticlicking.
> No. If person x is logged into facebook, they (or rather you, as it seems you work for facebook) get an indication of every page person x is browsing that has a "like" button, whether that person presses it or not.
OK, fair enough. I meant the stuff I or my friends see. Facebook doesn't display a list of "pages that had like buttons that orijing visited but did not like" although that would be interesting.
> OK, fair enough. I meant the stuff I or my friends see.
This is so very different from
> Everything Facebook knows about me is something I or my friends entered (i.e. via tagging).
As to be irrelevant - I don't have a single status update or biographic detail in my facebook account, and I remove tags of me from pictures -- and yet, facebook has a damn good idea of the websites I browsed before installing ghostery.
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> Everything Facebook knows about me is something I or my friends entered (i.e. via tagging).
No. If person x is logged into facebook, they (or rather you, as it seems you work for facebook) get an indication of every page person x is browsing that has a "like" button, whether that person presses it or not. Furthermore, even if you're logged out of facebook, there's still a couple of facebook cookies identifying the computer you've logged in from.
I'm not sure I would you believe the claim that Facebook is not using any of that info right now, but I'd probably call you an outright fraud if you said that this data is never ever going to be used for anything.
Same way for Google, BTW - they've had a better track record of not abusing the data they have, but it is possibly because we haven't heard the gory details yet, and it is not going to stay that way when their profits take a dip if they ever do - they are in it for the money, and that data is worth a lot of money.
For those reasons, my firefoxen run ABP, RequestPolicy and/or Ghostery, AND I have multiple users for job / personal / porn browsing (and other measures), and multiple browsers (chromes, firefox versions) for de-panopticlicking.
> No. If person x is logged into facebook, they (or rather you, as it seems you work for facebook) get an indication of every page person x is browsing that has a "like" button, whether that person presses it or not.
OK, fair enough. I meant the stuff I or my friends see. Facebook doesn't display a list of "pages that had like buttons that orijing visited but did not like" although that would be interesting.
> OK, fair enough. I meant the stuff I or my friends see.
This is so very different from
> Everything Facebook knows about me is something I or my friends entered (i.e. via tagging).
As to be irrelevant - I don't have a single status update or biographic detail in my facebook account, and I remove tags of me from pictures -- and yet, facebook has a damn good idea of the websites I browsed before installing ghostery.