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Posted on 04/18/2018 3:47:55 PM PDT by upchuck
Facebook's apology-and-explanation machine grinds on, with The Social Network™ posting detail on one of its most controversial activities – how it tracks people who don't use Facebook.
The company explained that the post is a partial response to questions CEO Mark Zuckerberg was unable to answer during his senate and Congressional hearings.
It's no real surprise that someone using their Facebook Login to sign in to other sites is tracked, but the post by product management director David Baser goes into (a little) detail on other tracking activities – some of which have been known to the outside world for some time, occasionally denied by Facebook, and apparently mysteries only to Zuck.
When non-Facebook sites add a “Like” button (a social plugin, in Baser's terminology), visitors to those sites are tracked: Facebook gets their IP address, browser and OS fingerprint, and visited site.
If that sounds a bit like the datr cookie dating from 2011, you wouldn't be far wrong.
Facebook denied non-user tracking until 2015, at which time it emphasised that it was only gathering non-users' interactions with Facebook users. That explanation didn't satisfy everyone, which was why The Social Network™ was told to quit tracking Belgians who haven't signed on earlier this year.
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So, do all “like” buttons get tracked by FB, or only some?
Specifically, Seeking Alpha, an investment site, and Quora, a general q/a and opinion site?
And, once your ip and email address have been picked up by FB, do they track you everywhere?
At that point, it’s not commerce, it is conspiracy.
Hope so.
And now every small biz owner who told me otherwise, who SWORE my privacy wouldn’t be violated, is now in deep doo doo...
....but not fast enough.
I am glad I never hit the like button on a Facebook site.
When non-Facebook sites add a “Like” button (a social plugin, in Baser's terminology), visitors to those sites are tracked:
I smell a lawsuit...
If I’m reading this right you don’t have to “like” the site - if they have the “like” button on the page you are tracked when you go there whether you click the button or not.
Hitting the button is apparently not needed. This seems to mean they track you through all the sites you visit, that happen to have a FaceBook button on them.
You don’t have to hit a like button. You just have to visit a site where a like button has been activated. It’s as if your local MacDonalds when you drive by takes your car license, phone data, and does facial scanning of all the car occupants.
“It’s for your own good.”
“I wish you’d stop being so good to me Captain.”
Delete all cookies (except the Fr cookie) and empty your cache before closing your browser. Use a private viewing mode to avoid collecting cookies in the first place.
Hope it works ...
There are a few sanctimonious FReepers who gloat that their privacy is safe because they haven’t joined any social media. Nobody with an internet connection is safe.
If you dare click on an ad or link, the same info can be tracked and usually is.
You’d think 2018 is the first year folks have heard of the internet.
I want to know what Radio Shack does with all the phone numbers it has collected over the years from folks who’ve bought batteries.
This bunch takes the concept of “Control Freak” and sends it into outer space.
There’s something slightly demented about this.
...for their own good?????
Who appointed the Zuckster?
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