This tool rocked! I thought I was pretty closed out with my privacy but was insecure on 2 elements, all sorted now! good work!
Facebook Privacy Scanner is launched
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Re: Facebook Privacy Scanner is launched
#42Want a german translation?
absolutely, fork it and contribute :) http://github.com/mjpizz/reclaimprivacy
Shall I just make a german version of the whole thing (the strings humans see, not the debug stuff) or do you plan for internationalisation (argh, what's the word) support? Don't do it just because I might do a translation, sometimes I lose interest in things. ;)
edit: It's mostly the htmlContent array and lines with the word "message" in them, correct? I don't know Javascript.
Re: Facebook Privacy Scanner is launched
#43Out of curiosity, is this a violation of Facebook's terms of use?
IANAL, but it's not a facebook app so it should not need to follow Facebook TOS. There might be trademark or other issues though. I'm glad it's opensource ( in case they get a take down notice ).
I just figured they wouldn't appreciate it because it 'harvests' data from facebook... in the same way they didn't like that firefox extension that converted the email address images into plain text.
Re: Facebook Privacy Scanner is launched
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
absolutely, fork it and contribute :) http://github.com/mjpizz/reclaimprivacy
Shall I just make a german version of the whole thing (the strings humans see, not the debug stuff) or do you plan for internationalisation (argh, what's the word) support? Don't do it just because I might do a translation, sometimes I lose interest in things. ;) edit: It's mostly the htmlContent array and lines with the word "message" in them, correct? I don't know Javascript.
yes, that is pretty much all of the content. Probably easiest to copy it into a variable called "htmlContentInGerman" or something, and then translate it. I'll figure out how to switch languages later on. Thanks for helping!
Re: Facebook Privacy Scanner is launched
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
IANAL, but it's not a facebook app so it should not need to follow Facebook TOS. There might be trademark or other issues though. I'm glad it's opensource ( in case they get a take down notice ).
I just figured they wouldn't appreciate it because it 'harvests' data from facebook... in the same way they didn't like that firefox extension that converted the email address images into plain text.
I can see it going either way.
If they hate it, I'm sure they'll try to block the script somehow. Either by changing stuff on the page or by threatening legal action.
If they love it (they might see it as a way to re-gain the trust of their user...), they might integrate it into their page.
Either way, as I said previously, I'm glad it's out in the open, that will prevent them from disappearing the project.
Re: Facebook Privacy Scanner is launched
#46I shared this on my wall and encouraged my friends to try it, and got a few responses that might be useful feedback for you as you improve it.
Basically, it was too hard to use. :-) I had to post very simple, step-by-step instructions as a comment to walk them through it, even down to the "click on the link and hold, then drag the mouse to the toolbar and let go" level. Several of them also didn't realize you needed to be on facebook.com to use it -- they tried just clicking the bookmarklet link on the original page.
The kind of people who can most benefit from a tool like this -- i.e., not the elite geeks who probably already have awareness of FB's privacy issues and how to address them -- need extremely straightforward, "don't-make-me-think" instructions to gain value from it.
These people aren't stupid -- they just don't have the same intelligences we have or assume others to have.
Re: Facebook Privacy Scanner is launched
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just figured they wouldn't appreciate it because it 'harvests' data from facebook... in the same way they didn't like that firefox extension that converted the email address images into plain text.
I can see it going either way. If they hate it, I'm sure they'll try to block the script somehow. Either by changing stuff on the page or by threatening legal action. If they love it (they might see it as a way to re-gain the trust of their user...), they might integrate it into their page. Either way, as I said previously, I'm glad it's out in the open, that will prevent them from disappearing the project.
It's a bookmarklet though, which means it's all client side javascript, which will make it pretty hard to block. It's basically a greasemonkey extension, and if you look at all the GM extensions available on userscripts.org, there are some that do pretty crazy things and are usually updated on the same day the site owner changes something that causes the script to break.
Re: Facebook Privacy Scanner is launched
#48would it be long before facebook comes out with their privacy-blocking tool.
They may be anticipating many tools with these features, so doing accordingly?
as a thought game; I foresee facebook coming up with their claim-n-search-your-privacy app, which they would use to strengthen the privacy game. :)
Re: Facebook Privacy Scanner is launched
#49This tool rocked! I thought I was pretty closed out with my privacy but was insecure on 2 elements, all sorted now! good work!
Same thing for me! Thanks!
Re: Facebook Privacy Scanner is launched
#50I shared this on my wall and encouraged my friends to try it, and got a few responses that might be useful feedback for you as you improve it. Basically, it was too hard to use. :-) I had to post very simple, step-by-step instructions as a comment to walk them through it, even down to the "click on the link and hold, then drag the mouse to the toolbar and let go" level. Several of them also didn't realize you needed…
yea I had the same sense - thanks for that feedback. Maybe a screencast? I don't have much time to do a screencast at the moment, but if anybody makes one I will gladly post it up :)