Seems very similar to the original Facebook Beacon, which they were forced take down.
Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says
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Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says
#32That's not all. In NY state, they ruled that can artist can take pictures of you in your home through your windows: https://fstoppers.com/photojournalistic/supreme-court-rules-...
And why not? It would forbid a lot of outdoor photography if I couldn't accidentally catch a photo of someone in their house. Google Street view would be gone.
not necessarily, they would be forced anonymize faces.
Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says
#33Why are you using this CIA / NSA sponsored corporation product ?
If you know the danger of this and you still use it.. why you cry about it ?
People... sheeps they are.
Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says
#34I have a few questions. 1) “Facebook’s intrusion could have easily been blocked, but plaintiffs chose not to do so,” This seems like a dangerous precedent. So if we can block surveillance attempts and we don't try, then it's our fault? > “The fact that a user’s web browser automatically sends the same information to both parties does not establish that one party intercepted the user’s communication with the other,” T…
> This makes no sense. Nothing happens "automatically", someone wrote the code for that to happen, in this case, Facebook. The website you are visiting has to deploy Facebook's code though. So the website owner has to allow it (assuming the know the implications of what they are doing).
> So the website owner has to allow it (assuming the know the implications of what they are doing).
You could assume it but it's not necessary the same people who designed the web page that add those facebok "features". From my impression, often than not you have some "social media marketing expert" that does this. And they do not give a rats ass about any nefarious tracking and will continue to be blissfully ignorant about the users privacy unless it becomes a corporate policy to care about those things.
Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says
#35While on the topic of tracking, is there a plugin that lets you delete cookies using rules on a per domain basis? for example, cookies are useful for some sites, and others they are useful for certain periods of time, and thereafter it would be nice to get rid of them (and yet more sites shouldn't be able to leave cookies at all). I know there are some plugins that let you block all cookies, or manage them after the fact, but I want something rule based and automated
Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wouldn't opening several "Private Windows" achieve the same situation? What are the differences?
Several private windows share the cookies. Try logging into a website in a private window and open that website in another private window and you will be logged in.
In Chrome. Not in Safari.
Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says
#37That's not all. In NY state, they ruled that can artist can take pictures of you in your home through your windows: https://fstoppers.com/photojournalistic/supreme-court-rules-...
And why not? It would forbid a lot of outdoor photography if I couldn't accidentally catch a photo of someone in their house. Google Street view would be gone.
There is actually a distinction between incidental photography and intentional.
Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says
#38I have a few questions. 1) “Facebook’s intrusion could have easily been blocked, but plaintiffs chose not to do so,” This seems like a dangerous precedent. So if we can block surveillance attempts and we don't try, then it's our fault? > “The fact that a user’s web browser automatically sends the same information to both parties does not establish that one party intercepted the user’s communication with the other,” T…
You're not very good at questions.
Please phrase comments constructively. In this case you could provide a better example of a question they were trying to ask OR explain why their question didn't make sense.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
What better ways than cookies is there to track users ? AFAIK, it's the most unique fingerprint you can get of a user. Everything else is probably going to be a lot less precise.
Your ISP adding a header containing your subscriber ID to every request.
Can you provide links? I only saw
http://www.balough.com/internet-service-provider-must-disclo... in the case of an RIAA suit
Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says
#40I think EFF's privacy badger [0] can block this kind of tracking, depending on how sophsticated their tracking methods are.