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To: sam_paine

That’s how you get those buttons. That kind of stuff happens any time you cross link. If you stick a picture in your post that on photobucket when anybody views that page they’re sending a request to the photobucket server that has their IP. And if FB changes their like button code to do something bad JimRob can yank the link. It’s really not that exciting and yes you ARE being paranoid. FB (and twitter, and digg) like buttons are all over the internet, if you go anywhere you’re probably getting them. No reason to freak out about them here.


95 posted on 11/17/2010 10:15:19 AM PST by discostu (Keyser Soze lives)
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To: discostu; justlurking; mnehring; Jim Robinson; editor-surveyor; kevkrom
True. Posts to pull an image can be aggregated to log IPs.

But JimRob does not allow us to put js in a post, why does he trust FB to insert js?

And if FB changes their like button code to do something bad JimRob can yank the link.

Really? And he's monitoring what they do with it, and that the js code isn't possible to change or be served different for requests from fr??

FB (and twitter, and digg) like buttons are all over the internet, if you go anywhere you’re probably getting them. No reason to freak out about them here

Yes. And they all report in the referencing page. Do you really think the fb people are always going to treat traffic from FR the same way they treat visits from TMZ?

I'm just responding to people on here who say "if you don't like it, don't click it."

If you have javascript enabled, then you are "clicking on facebook" just by loading any page now.

FR was not broke. No need to fix it. Just sayin!

103 posted on 11/17/2010 10:26:20 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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