Nothing new in this title at all here.. and it has the "Scary Straight-faced Zuckerburg image" so it must be bad news… 😉 But the click through to the graph showing how many tracker instances Facebook initiates depending on what types of sites you are viewing(http://goo.gl/ZYnCa) Is REALLY worth a look or two if you have not seen this yet.
A telling quote from the article.. 🙂 "Critics call this spying. Advertisers call it targeting."
Don't forget to tell your high school pals and grandma! … They are watching you 😉
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-how-facebook-is-tracking-your-internet-activity-2012-9
Huh. Broken link.
that fez
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link is broken gasp could it be?!
My bad… link fixed… 🙂
Hello good morning
And people wonder why I've never had a FB page.
I closed my FB account but anyway is good to know that…
+Amanda Blain I did not get the page displayed correctly, the linked information said 404-not found
Hi Zukerburg, Thank's for creating facebook!! It has allowed me to connect with family and friends across the United States I would have other wise not have comminicated with. Your creation has been a blessing to me and my family!! Thanks Again!!
Lol everyone is being tracked by some type of corporation. . .
This just confirms why I quit FB.
oh jeeze, if you don't like it don't use facebook… This is much better than having to pay for it. and you can turn it off in google. We should be much more worried about the FBI being able to use our cell GPS data without warrants, because the FBI isn't just trying to sell you stuff. :/
Facebook Disconnect for the win – goo.gl/d9jE2
Delete…
Facebook has sold out to big business, get used to your info being sold.
If they were "secretly tracking you" then you wouldn't know it 😛
easy fix: create a profile just for facebook in your firefox profiles. Or use different browsers one for facebook and one for shopping. It's not like it's hard to circumvent..
Thanks. Just what i need to read before bed!
Even if you go into settings on Facebook and delete the account and then log out, if you try to log back in your Facebook won't be deleted. I tried that many times.
where did i say secretly? … where did anybody? and YOU seem a bright chap… so you might know how to do such things but i assure you my college pals and grandma don't… So they should know… which is why i posted this lovely article.
Yeah no shit. Facebook-Google-Youtube-Yahoo – and what have you? They ALL give me the creeps!
I agree … BUT… the sheer amount and ways that facebook is tracking you even when you are not doing anything directly with their website.. is quite astonishing if you ask me. All sites track in some way.. but its this "Off site and beyond" that REALLY gets to moi. 🙂
Every site that has buttons, whether they are FB, G+, Twitter,… already knows your whereabouts just when you have them loaded on your screen. You don't even need a profile as, as long as your using the same IP address, their databases can surely link all the data together.
Using two browsers has been the quickest workaround for me. I do all of the socials in one and everything else in the other. I'm definitely not computer savvy but that was easy enough for me. 🙂
So what about plus ??? don't they do da damn same thing ?
+Amanda Blain Oh for sure, The "secretly" was in the article, I agree people should be aware, I just think they word the articles to make them SCARY for more views. I just don't like the hype, not that I thought you were perpetuating it 🙂 Honestly I like posts that inspire conversation!
Ok. I'm gonna really look into this.
People should realize that much more than Facebook is collecting information on you. Just don't post/view things you would not want the world knowing.
they all mine and share information, they do it by looking through your cookies, as well as planting cookies, look into google analytics.
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yea,Right through the Cookies,But bad policy
True, it really depends on what data you are trying to keep private though. They may have profiles built upon IP addresses but they primarily use unique browser identification numbers, this is especially helpful for targeting multiple users per IP address. Basically privacy is found at the cost of convenience, people just need to decide where that ratio is for themselves.
I tried to toss my cookies once and my browsers wouldn't work–both Google. What's up? G?
So is +Google
I just assume that they are tracking me if I install their ecookie for use on other sites. Google is always tracking you – everywhere all the time. thats' why I limit my surfing to where I really need to go, then I'm off the internet.
hai …
if you are really interested in blocking ALL tracking, you should look into this, it's a easy all encompassing solution for normal people. It was created by a group from a german university I believe anonymous-proxy-servers.net/ their anon test is scary..
You don't say!
Actually you can remove the tracking when you log out of your computer just clean your browser before logging out you can also manage your cookies by selecting what & who you want to allow to leave their cookies in your browser..
is G tracking? I just got a post from someone else about working in a nursing home, and my spam filled up with a list of all the nursing homes in Tucson! I don't mind the tracking or cookies, but I wonder are they taking up space on my disks and memory?
Been blocking sites for years with various techniques and DNT+ is just one tool.
Take a look at the add-on Collusion which is available for both Firefox and Google Chrome, this will give you a real-time clickable graph showing who is tracking you and what sites are aware of you and your behavior!
After you have used it for while, install Adblock Plus and DNT+ and then look at the difference! 😉
The important is to know how to move in the net! Sorry but I love my faceb page like all the others! There are mine. We just have to accept and respect others concepts and ideas.
Lol, & Google isn't taking me? Whenever I look at my girlfriend's phone it shows which shops I've been on, which pubs I've been in, in fact everywhere I've been for the day. For some strange reason every website I look at seems to have adverts for this I've been searching for… the list is endless. I can't figure out how they know ;p
& peeps are worried about Facebook taking them!
It is better to know that you are being watched, than being watched secretly!
well, when you use facebook to log into a website instead of creating an account on that website only, then ofcourse they can track you, but same goes for Google and G+.
It comes down to a choice, how much is what level of privacy worth to you(sacrificing convenience). For me, there are some websites that i rarely log into, and it is a schlep to keep track of all the passwords and usernames(its never a good idea to use same password everywhere). in those cases i use the FB login, i dont care that they know i visit website X once every month. But it comes down to personal choice
Yeah but first people need to get aware of that they are being tracked then they can make a conscious choice and as Amanda already said nothing new in this title at all here..
Well that's only true for those of us that are conscious about it, the rest needs to get enlightened! 😉
Then i don't get how people can take this so casual, if something can be abused it will sooner or later that's just human nature, imo it's terrible and i don't like it at all and will fight it by any means i can.
, that is true, most people dont know
i used ghostery already, but now i install Do Not Track Plus …
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