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So glad I’ve never used Facebook. Too bad that my wife does....
My first thought is to get off of Faceplant. That might help.
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2 mistakes right out of the gate.
The only way to keep your life even reasonably private is to have the smallest Interwebz footprint possible (unless you are celebrity and I recommend they use a non-de-plume).
There are 4 people in the entire world who can trace my RL persona to my Interwebz FD2003 one. And if I can't trust them, I may as well give up completely.
Yeah, I have a phony FB ID (NOT FD2003 but another non-de-plume), but I just use it to visit sites when my foolish friends post up their RL info.
The founder of Facebook was very explicit in not believing in privacy.
Look into the firefox extension NoScript. Also you may want to delete all cookies. Ones you use, like for here at FR will have to be re-authorized to the whitelist.
I use my real name too but then again, I don’t have anything to keep secret. heh
You need to go into your Facebook settings and block the Instant Personalization. That is how you block Yelp, Pandora and Docs.com.
My dear FRiend, if you are using Facebook with your real name and regular email address, you have abandoned any possibility of privacy. The whole world now knows the results of your last proctologist appointment.
"Ghostery allows you to block scripts from companies that you don't trust, delete local shared objects, and even block images and iframes. Ghostery puts your web privacy back in your hands."
I have TACO , ADD BLOCK PLUS, BETTER PRIVACY, and GHOSTERY (these are all free addons for FIREFOX).
(they may seem redundant, but they are doing a great job for me)
They block this stuff and allow you an easy click on/off interface to enable/disable any cookies you want.
PLUS , it always SHOWS you what cookies are tracking you.
Start simple. Get BETTER PRIVACY and it will probably solve that little problem for you.
>> “OK, first, let me say I have a Facebook acct.” <<
There’s the first problem.
>> “And I use my real name on FB.” <<
And there’s the second one.
>> “I just Googled something” <<
And there’s the third one.
>> Now I DO NOT WANT some random website I visit to know all about me! I DO NOT WANT the FB people to have access to my browsing history or where/what I do on the net.” <<
Ever heard the saying about barns... doors... horses? It applies here.
Not a lot you can do about the first and second ones, since they’re already fait accompli. But you should never use Google. Use Scroogle or Ixquick or Dogpile- most anything would be preferable to Google or Bing.
You might want to look into installing the Tor button plug in for Firefox and use the TOR onion routers for anonymity. But even they won’t help if your browser “leaks” info, as they all do unless you take proactive efforts.
Also install the Cookie Culler plug in or similar to easily handle your cookies.
Then install Better Privacy plugin to handle the flash cookies that are used more and more.
If you don’t want any of those organizations to track you and know what you do on the web, then the only solution is not to get on the web. Other than that, learn how to be paranoid and what you have to do to assure privacy and security online. But DON’T Google for it.
Go to addons.mozilla.org and browse through the plugins there in the privacy/security areas.
My life has improved since I got off Facebutt.
Another vote for Ghostery, Addblock+ & Better Privacy.
Use gmail? When you’re writing a message, it gets automatically saved every so many seconds. Saved and analyzed in any human language Google unnestands. Analyzed, so that alongside the message you are still writing ads for products Google thinks you might be interested in can appear. And we here complain about gumbint snooping! Duuuuuuuude!
I think anyone that posts personal information on Facebook is crazy. Once you post it, they own it.
yeah...but it’s not new.
You should try having a Hispanic name and getting phonecalls from the Democratic party in Spanish.
and if you give to a charity, you get all sorts of junk mail from similar charities.
As for Facebook, I use my son’s email and name...(I helped him sign up for these years ago, but he decided he wanted his own and doesn’t use them anymore). I tend to get a lot of ads for Viagra in my junkmail box, but aside from that I don’t mind.
this is why i do not have a facebook or any other of these sort of accounts. it is already no privacy as is.
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