Facebook is fighting back. The drag queens didn't like Facebook's "real names" policy. So Facebook is showing that it can infer the connections anyway.
How Facebook knows who you might be dating online
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Re: How Facebook knows who you might be dating online
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> Despite having all GPS related features of Facebook and its messenger disabled, the Facebook Messenger app tries to access my GPS location at seemingly random times. This is troubling, and goes against the Play Store's terms and conditions for app developers. I suppose Facebook gets a pass on it through some unspoken agreement with Google, though.
do you really think that is possible ?
shadier collusion has happened in the past amongst large tech firms http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/3/9256097/apple-google-415-mi...
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#33Yeah, I haven't actually used facebook for anything in years, so now I'm deleting my account and I will use a temporary phone for any future situation where I need it. I will also be going out of my way to spread as much FUD among my less tech savvy friends as I possibly can. Go Zuck yourself, Mark.
Why don't you just delete the Facebook app from your smartphone? That way, Facebook won't have access to your contact list. Therefore, this should not happen. I'm a casual Facebook user since like 2008, but I never even considered installing any of the Facebook apps on my phone.
This is irrelevant.
You will still be tied to a unique identifier and tracked all over the web because your browser fingerprint (yes, it's probably unique: test here https://panopticlick.eff.org/) will be reported back for every site affiliated with an advertising network affiliated with Facebook.
Re: How Facebook knows who you might be dating online
#34I think this is far less mysterious than people suppose.
Hypothesis - if someone on facebook views your profile then facebook is more likely to suggest them as a friend. Increase the probability if the person is a low degree of separation from you.
Obviously people on dating apps are often going to be searching each other out on facebook to see more info.
I guessed this was how facebook did it because I saw an ex of mine once on the street (I don't have the fb app on my phone or anything like that - so I doubt it was using location data). We never spoke - but made eye contact. Later that day she appeared as a friend suggestion for the first time. My guess is that she viewed my profile out of curiosity.
Re: How Facebook knows who you might be dating online
#35Facebook is fighting back. The drag queens didn't like Facebook's "real names" policy. So Facebook is showing that it can infer the connections anyway.
This is irrelevant.
You will still be tied to a unique identifier and tracked all over the web because your browser fingerprint (yes, it's probably unique: test here https://panopticlick.eff.org/) will be reported back for every site affiliated with an advertising network affiliated with Facebook.
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#36Something similar happened to me on Facebook. There was someone I was meeting in real life but we had absolutely no FB connections. No mutual friends. And I didn't even know she was on Facebook. Suddenly I saw her on my 'Suggested friends' list. The only reasonable explanation is that she found me on Facebook and viewed my profile. Facebook saved the incident and suggested her to me as a friend. Facebook forgets noth…
This is irrelevant.
You will still be tied to a unique identifier and tracked all over the web because your browser fingerprint (yes, it's probably unique: test here https://panopticlick.eff.org/) will be reported back for every site affiliated with an advertising network affiliated with Facebook.
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> The only reasonable explanation is that she found me on Facebook and viewed my profile. Facebook saved the incident and suggested her to me as a friend. This. I had something similar happen a year or two ago; I enrolled in a course at a local university, and about midway through the semester Facebook suggested that I friend the instructor. I was friends with no one else in the course, had never posted about the cou…
The instructor imported the contact list for the class at some point, establishing the link from him/her to you. There's no reason to assume it's not a bi-directional link with regards to contact suggestions.
This is irrelevant.
You will still be tied to a unique identifier and tracked all over the web because your browser fingerprint (yes, it's probably unique: test here https://panopticlick.eff.org/) will be reported back for every site affiliated with an advertising network affiliated with Facebook.
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You will not find information or content that you have deleted because this is deleted from Facebook servers. https://www.facebook.com/help/405183566203254 So if you delete it, it won't be in the download.
Can you delete entire Facebook Message conversations?
I think I saw that option before. I know I definitely can delete messages and they don't appear in the download.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
You will not find information or content that you have deleted because this is deleted from Facebook servers. https://www.facebook.com/help/405183566203254 So if you delete it, it won't be in the download.
Can you delete entire Facebook Message conversations?
The default is Archive, just like Google Hangouts but you can delete conversations by clicking the Cog icon on the thread.
Re: How Facebook knows who you might be dating online
#40The Facebook app on iOS isn't listed as having requested access to my contacts. Is this just an Android thing? Or does the app have some way of sneakily getting access?
Contacts is accessible by "Messenger" on mine, the Facebook app itself doesn't provide contact sync.
Ok, that makes sense. I don't have Messenger installed.