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Re: Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile after downloading it?

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I've checked my own archive and they haven't embedded any tracking pixels. Don't spread nonsense.

Well I checked mine and it hits fbcdn.net so I guess it’s you trying to cover it up for some reason. Brand new account too, not suspicious at all.

> for some reason

Do share what exactly it was before accusing people of covering it up.

Re: Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile after downloading it?

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I've checked my own archive and they haven't embedded any tracking pixels. Don't spread nonsense.

Well I checked mine and it hits fbcdn.net so I guess it’s you trying to cover it up for some reason. Brand new account too, not suspicious at all.

Disregarding the strange rant for a moment, is it purely for tracking purposes or does it just use their CDN for CSS, images etc?

(Wouldn't be surprised at all if it was tracking, this is Facebook after all, but there are plenty of perfectly legitimate reasons to use a a CDN)

Re: Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile after downloading it?

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My company is working on something to power that and more, for everyone as open source https://qbix.com If you wind up trying it, please provide some feedback.

Honest feedback: get rid of the spinning globe GIF, it reminds me of Geocities in the 90s.

If by "get rid of the spinning globe GIF" you actually mean "add a flaming skull and crossbones GIF" I'm 100% on board with this suggestion.

Re: Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile after downloading it?

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No, but I am curious too - that would be a nice idea to kick-start a distributed social network imho.

Opera had something called Unite just before it went under; it was a web-server that ran on the browser and allowed you to connect to friends p2p for sharing, etc., it wasn't quite there but it had the concept of the 'net as _the_ social network without intermediates.

I was really excited by the concept and thought we were on track to have "the next Facebook". Primarily it needed caching to handle self-hosted content not being always on.

Still hopeful we can move on that direction so we can self-host and publish to different platforms, etc..

Re: Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile after downloading it?

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When you ask Facebook for your archive it's already pure HTML. All you need to do is to censor it somewhat (if appropriate, e.g. remove private messages) and host it somewhere with access control.

That must be just a tiny bit of the entire data set they have about you. Tracking from all pages containing like button, all characters entered into chat, including those typed but deleted or not sent otherwise. I wonder how does it match against GDPR request.

Re: Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile after downloading it?

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My company is working on something to power that and more, for everyone as open source https://qbix.com If you wind up trying it, please provide some feedback.

Honest feedback: get rid of the spinning globe GIF, it reminds me of Geocities in the 90s.

Have you tried clicking on this GIF?

Re: Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile after downloading it?

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well I checked mine and it hits fbcdn.net so I guess it’s you trying to cover it up for some reason. Brand new account too, not suspicious at all.

Disregarding the strange rant for a moment, is it purely for tracking purposes or does it just use their CDN for CSS, images etc? (Wouldn't be surprised at all if it was tracking, this is Facebook after all, but there are plenty of perfectly legitimate reasons to use a a CDN)

There's a bunch of absolute paths in the generated HTML that link to inline icons and other chaff. As I'm never actually logged into FB, they show up as broken images when you view your offline archive.

Re: Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile after downloading it?

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The http://indieweb.org community has prior work in this area.

> Your content is yours: When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. Too many companies have gone out of business and lost all of their users’ data. By joining the IndieWeb, your content stays yours and in your control

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