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Re: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail

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Post by falling »

raganwald wrote: post #65
falling wrote: post #64

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Do you (and anyone else on this thread isolating Facebook to prevent tracking) do the same for Google?

I use DuckDuckGo: http://donttrack.us/

I'm familiar with DDG, donttrack.us, dontbubble.us. My question was because even without an account or using its search engine, with AdWords and other products, Google is able to track people to provide them – and those who fall in the same bucket – targeted advertisement (which is what Facebook uses the same data for).

I am not much concerned about this – but I'm starting to, sometimes it is actually a bit creepy –, but I see a lot more people concerned about Facebook tracking them than Google, which I don't understand, since Google has been doing it far longer and in a much more pervasive way, yet very few people express concern about Google these days. I remember the uproar when Gmail introduced content targeted ads, but now nobody cares anymore, directing all attention only to Facebook.

Tangentially, the issues raised by dontbubble.us concern me more than being tracked.

Re: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail

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Post by andresmh »

raganwald wrote: post #19

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…

I do this with Mozilla Prism http://prism.mozillalabs.com/

Re: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail

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Post by tome »

piggity wrote: post #68
mekoka wrote: post #30

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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.

Google Chrome's "users" should let you segment all your cookies and browsing neatly. 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)

I have a dedicated Firefox profile for Facebook. This keeps all cookies separate. I haven't done a deep check as to whether this avoids all the Facebook problems, but it's a start.

Re: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail

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Post by muuh-gnu »

nitrogen wrote: post #34
zalew wrote: post #31

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being so afraid, what's the point of using it?

I can't speak for raganwald, but in my case there are people who refuse to communicate using anything else.

If there are people who can cut you off for not using FB, that means simply that you are less important to them than they are to you. It means that they are strong and you are weak. Are you seriously going to let such people emotionally blackmail you into using FB?

Situations like yours always remind me of how people emotionally force each other to stay in a religion, by threatening a cut-off of communication if they leave.

Re: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail

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Post by jeromeflipo »

raganwald wrote: post #19

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…

Chrome supports multiple profiles now, see http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/11/take-your-chrome-stuff-wi.... I can't believe so few HN readers know this, since it's the best way to use seperately Google Apps and Gmail accounts. It works for Facebook too, obviously.

You can sync all Chrome browsers, on all your devices, with both your Google Apps account for work and your personal Gmail account. It means that each profile have their own bookmarks, history & most visited pages, extensions, saved passwords (...) synced in real-time (you can even sync open tabs!). It's very powerful to improve your focus, because you only use 1 browser (no need to switch your habits) and you're never get distracted by notifications, mails, docs, rss when you're in your work/perso "station".

Fortunately, you can keep your Gmail/Google apps chat accounts of each profiles open in the background with the official Google Talk extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nckgahadagoaajjgaf... (works on Mac, Windows, Linux & ChromeOS).

Re: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail

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Post by dextorious »

raganwald wrote: post #19

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…

How about not logging to Facebook at all?

You don't seem like the kind of user FB targets anyway...

Re: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail

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Post by k-mcgrady »

dextorious wrote: post #79
raganwald wrote: post #19

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…

How about not logging to Facebook at all? You don't seem like the kind of user FB targets anyway...

Facebook doesn't really have a targeted audience anymore. It's pretty much everybody. At this point its like deciding not to use the telephone because the line could be tapped. Facebook is becoming an essential communications platform for a lot of people. Particularly people under 20.
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