Spotify not out to completely embarrass you via Facebook anymore

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Post by alphadoggs » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 4:29 PM UTC

Spotify not out to completely embarrass you via Facebook anymore
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Post by tantalor » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 4:50 PM UTC

I think you can block this behavior two different ways,

1. From Spotify, disable "Get personal recommendations by sending music you play to your Facebook Timeline."

2. From Facebook, find a story Spotify published on your Timeline, click on the "edit this post" control and block Spotify from posting to your Timeline.

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Post by d-lectable » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 4:55 PM UTC

The proper way for them to have done it, is for you to opt-in to sharing your music, as oppose to sneakily telling your facebook friends what you're listening to.

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Post by ComputerGuru » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:05 PM UTC

Too late. I deactivated my FaceBook account yesterday following that Huffington Post article about "gestures" and streams and whatnot.

I was never vulnerable as I've been using the Facebook Disconnect extension for Chrome, but enough is enough. I considered what I get out of Facebook vs what kind of information they derive from me, and despite being a very heavy FBer, I pulled the plug.

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Post by nextparadigms » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:20 PM UTC

Why do Facebook and all these companies make the elimination of your privacy with a new feature opt-out, rather than opt-in? If they are really building that new feature to help the user, it should be opt-in and the user should have the option to choose it. But when they are making everything opt-out by default, they are clearly doing to help themselves.

If your feature is actually that helpful, then make it opt-in and promote the benefits to the user. If they "buy" it, they will use it. If they don't buy it, then you're doing something wrong anyway.

Companies, please stop eliminating my privacy by default when I use your service or product.

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:21 PM UTC

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Post by iamdave » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:26 PM UTC

ComputerGuru wrote: post #4

Too late. I deactivated my FaceBook account yesterday following that Huffington Post article about "gestures" and streams and whatnot. I was never vulnerable as I've been using the Facebook Disconnect extension for Chrome, but enough is enough. I considered what I get out of Facebook vs what kind of information they derive from me, and despite being a very heavy FBer, I pulled the plug.

I missed that article, can you link it? Thanks

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Post by ComputerGuru » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:29 PM UTC

iamdave wrote: post #7

ComputerGuru wrote: post #4

Too late. I deactivated my FaceBook account yesterday following that Huffington Post article about "gestures" and streams and whatnot. I was never vulnerable as I've been using the Facebook Disconnect extension for Chrome, but enough is enough. I considered what I get out of Facebook vs what kind of information they derive from me, and despite being a very heavy FBer, I pulled the plug.

I missed that article, can you link it? Thanks

Sorry. Not Huffington Post, don't know why I could swear it was.

http://www.snowtechnologiesconsulting.com/facebook-users-bew...

EDIT: Because the author mentions HuffPo.

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:30 PM UTC

ComputerGuru wrote: post #4

Too late. I deactivated my FaceBook account yesterday following that Huffington Post article about "gestures" and streams and whatnot. I was never vulnerable as I've been using the Facebook Disconnect extension for Chrome, but enough is enough. I considered what I get out of Facebook vs what kind of information they derive from me, and despite being a very heavy FBer, I pulled the plug.

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Post by gzavitz » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:30 PM UTC

tantalor wrote: post #2

I think you can block this behavior two different ways, 1. From Spotify, disable "Get personal recommendations by sending music you play to your Facebook Timeline." 2. From Facebook, find a story Spotify published on your Timeline, click on the "edit this post" control and block Spotify from posting to your Timeline.

Tried #2 several times. I kept getting a cryptic error that wouldn't let me remove them. Ended up disconnecting Spotify from Facebook (using #1).