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With the "Like" button littered all over the web, Facebook can still connect you to all the websites that have the Like button installed! That's why I prefer AdBlock/Privacy Filters/even blocking Facebook domains by adding entries to /etc/hosts file to prevent even even a connection to their (known) IPs.
I use lots of FB blocking in my regular account for that reason!
I bought http://fluidapp.com/ just for Facebook. Now I have a nice separate window for browsing Facebook and nothing but Facebook. Separate cookie store is awesome.
Doesn't fluid share the same default cookie store as Safari? It definitely does on my version, which is 6 months old, but it caused me to not use it.
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Well...except people generally only appreciate these features when they're allowed explicitly. It's kind of unsettling having a website spontaneously know your activity elsewhere on the browser. Even well-intended, it can come off as tracking data.
It is explicit, apparently FB is using OpenID which is information supplied by you linking the two accounts, completely opt-in. Besides, it's hardly tracking you with this feature, a boolean: is user logged in to Gmail? Yes|No If yes, user can be verified quickly and reset their password in an easier fashion for them. Facebook is trying to make things smoother and not making you jump into your email to click a link o…
Not sure how they are doing this, but I have gotten tired of having to play “whack-a-mole” with FB scraping private information from my browser in other ways, so what I have done is sandboxed it: I have a separate “Facebook” account on OS X, and I assume that anything I do on that account is shared with Facebook. I don’t log into Facebook for any reason on my normal user account, and I don’t log into anything else on…
Not sure how they are doing this, but I have gotten tired of having to play “whack-a-mole” with FB scraping private information from my browser in other ways, so what I have done is sandboxed it: I have a separate “Facebook” account on OS X, and I assume that anything I do on that account is shared with Facebook. I don’t log into Facebook for any reason on my normal user account, and I don’t log into anything else on…
Do you (and anyone else on this thread isolating Facebook to prevent tracking) do the same for Google?
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Doesn't fluid share the same default cookie store as Safari? It definitely does on my version, which is 6 months old, but it caused me to not use it.
Not any more. He rewrote it and made separate cookie store a paid feature.
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if they did this you might as well just go to your email and click on the link
What i am saying is that you are forced to re-login to prevent someone stealing your facebook account when he has access to your computer. given that most people stay logged into their gmail, i think this would actually be helpful
Not sure how they are doing this, but I have gotten tired of having to play “whack-a-mole” with FB scraping private information from my browser in other ways, so what I have done is sandboxed it: I have a separate “Facebook” account on OS X, and I assume that anything I do on that account is shared with Facebook. I don’t log into Facebook for any reason on my normal user account, and I don’t log into anything else on…
There's a comprehensive choice of browsers ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers ). I picked one that I knew I wouldn't need and dedicated it to my facebook usage.
I use it to separate my various different Google identities and logins (so I can stay logged in with distinct accounts).
(Google's multiple sign-in is rarely effective or convenient)
Not sure how they are doing this, but I have gotten tired of having to play “whack-a-mole” with FB scraping private information from my browser in other ways, so what I have done is sandboxed it: I have a separate “Facebook” account on OS X, and I assume that anything I do on that account is shared with Facebook. I don’t log into Facebook for any reason on my normal user account, and I don’t log into anything else on…
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