We know what you're doing • Hacker News Board

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by fchollet » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 7:09 AM UTC

yread wrote: post #55

georgemcbay wrote: post #3

I'm surprised there isn't a column for people who are reading Hacker News. This guy for example: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?=743264506

Funny thing is that when you try to post it on your facebook wall the preview shows your profile. But when somebody else clicks it it takes them to their profile

Previews on FB are loaded and processed in your own browser, and then results are uploaded to FB (to spare server load, I assume).

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by garethadams » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 7:34 AM UTC

treetrouble wrote: post #27

farnsworth wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not a research tool... you're missing the point.

You're missing my point. That information is uninteresting to me no matter what the purpose of this site is

I've got a fantastic idea: Why don't you make a list of all the pages on the internet that don't interest you, and then tell HN about it. Then I can use that as the starting point for my list.

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by troels » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 7:38 AM UTC

yread wrote: post #52

troels wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, but why doesn't it respond with 404 as would be appropriate?

"You want to see a page we don't have? Let me show you some ads instead!"

Technically, a 404 page with ads on would be fine too ..

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by edu » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 7:41 AM UTC

djeikyb wrote: post #57

georgemcbay wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to set any minds at ease after the initial shock: The link I posted is just a generic bad id link that ends up redirecting to your own Facebook profile if you are currently logged into Facebook. Anyone logged into Facebook will see their own profile. The link joering2 posted OTOH is actually to my Facebook profile. But: A) I don't really care (anything I put on my Facebook profile is assumed to be 1000% publical…

Interestingly, the string of numbers is a real user id. I presume it defaults to your own profile because facebook.com/profile.php goes to your own profile, and fb simply ignores the malformed parameters.

Nope, the trick is that he's skipping the "id=" part between the '?' and the user ID, so the param is not being passed properly and thus the link is processed as just 'profile.php' without params. The link https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=yaddayadda would work propperly.

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by praptak » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 7:47 AM UTC

I have some doubts about the site's disclaimer: "I cannot be held responsible for any persons actions as a result of using this experiement."

If someone gets fired upon a comment you took out of context and put under "people who want to get fired" then I wouldn't bet the above statement as your best line of defence in a lawsuit.

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by leke » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 7:48 AM UTC

If you click one of these profiles, you can't see those messages, so how does this guy do it?

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by andrewfelix » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 7:51 AM UTC

praptak wrote: post #65

I have some doubts about the site's disclaimer: "I cannot be held responsible for any persons actions as a result of using this experiement." If someone gets fired upon a comment you took out of context and put under "people who want to get fired" then I wouldn't bet the above statement as your best line of defence in a lawsuit.

Agreed. I up voted the link, but I think the same message could have been conveyed with garbled names and numbers.

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by icoder » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 7:56 AM UTC

This could have been done a little more sophisticated. Now it seems nothing more than some basic text searches.

For instance two people saying "Not Hungover AT ALL, I love these mornings" and "Hungover !" respectively are both in the hungover section. And in the doing drugs section there was one guy who was happy he actually quit.

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by saraid216 » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 8:09 AM UTC

georgemcbay wrote: post #8

ffmmjj wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's kinda scary to see your own facebook profile being posted on HN out of nowhere... =\

Just to set any minds at ease after the initial shock: The link I posted is just a generic bad id link that ends up redirecting to your own Facebook profile if you are currently logged into Facebook. Anyone logged into Facebook will see their own profile. The link joering2 posted OTOH is actually to my Facebook profile. But: A) I don't really care (anything I put on my Facebook profile is assumed to be 1000% publical…

I was confused at first because I use Facebook in a different browser, so it just gave me the login screen.

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by josteink » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 8:13 AM UTC

None of the posts have any likes. Now I don't feel so bad about my own ignored facebook posts ;)