Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says

Post by usrusr » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 2:37 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #42

braythwayt wrote: post #25

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The most interesting thing to me about "Facebook's intrusion could have easily been blocked, but plaintiffs chose not to do so," is that it implies that users have a right to block tracking code. If that isn't already enshrined in case law, hopefully it signals that we will not get laws passed requiring users to allow tracking, and the courts will hopefully invalidate terms and conditions requiring tracking. Having l…

> Having lived through the rise of DMCA, I live in fear of an emboldened industry getting laws passed that make the use and distribution of blocking software illegal. The day that happens I'm joining the dark side.

Post by altern8tif » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 2:49 PM UTC

libeclipse wrote: post #3

I 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…

Post by godelski » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 3:07 PM UTC

sametmax wrote: post #70

zimpenfish wrote: post #26

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For me, the reason is "Because there are people on Facebook that I want to communicate with".

I don't know any people around me that have facebook that don't have another way to be reached. So there is something else that makes you stay.

Post by jacquesm » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 3:11 PM UTC

hiq wrote: post #92

jacquesm wrote: post #44

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> When I open a new private window, I'm logged in as well. Not in firefox, or, at least not for me.

Are you logged in in a private window? I use the setting "Always use private browsing mode" in FF52, so all of my windows are in private mode, but whenever I open a new (private) window, I'm still logged in. I suspect you'd get the same behaviour with the default settings, and opening two new private windows.

Post by y4mi » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 3:12 PM UTC

Ankaios wrote: post #89

m_eiman wrote: post #15

Firefox has a pretty neat feature I discovered recently: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec... It lets you run multiple sessions in one window, where each tab belongs to a specific session with separated cookies and such. I've got a bunch of tabs where I'm logged in to Facebook, another set where I'm logged in to Google and the rest of them where I'm not logged in to either. Of course they c…

I've been tempted to write something that goes a bit further. I'd like traffic to each site to be routed through proxies with different IP addresses. (Perhaps even to the point where my devices are automatically managing a set of nodes or Lambdas on AWS.) Along with that, it will still be necessary to fix some browser information leaks that could be used for fingerprinting If someone is tempted to beat me to it, go f…