Could there be a browser plugin to like and share everything as you wander through the web? That would be an interesting way to demonstrate tracking technologies.
I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, with respect to Google search, you can just use an incognito window.
Only up to the limits of Google being able to track you anyway. There's IP address, user agent, and any other HTTP header information your browser leaks.
A VPN + Incognito should be enough. Not to truly anonymize you, but probably enough to disable the personalization layers. It doesn't make economic sense to waste engineering hours and computing time trying to show ads to the 0.0001% of paranoid users, which are likely blocking them anyway, even if the data is there.
Of course, there's no such thing as the vanilla user. You'll still be targeted on generic features (location, browser, OS, etc). A vanilla Linux user in SF is different than a vanilla Windows XP user in London.
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#13I was thinking of a way to destroy my facebook account because you can't actually delete it, this is pretty much it, like everything. Also I guess you could check-in every where at once all the time. I didn't think about the collateral damage it could cause to others, which is to bombard your "friend's feeds". This is also interesting because, well you can destory facebook in this manner. If enough people are peeing…
> I was thinking of a way to destroy my facebook account because you can't actually delete it, this is pretty much it, like everything.
This kind of bloody-minded civil obedience is something that I very much like.
Many years ago the supermarket (20? 25?) Safeway (UK) started a customer loyalty card. My flatmates and I applied for one in the name of "Ivor Trotts". That card was only ever used to buy loo paper.
So a browser-plugin to allow me to auto-click all the social buttons might be fun; especially if I can do that on a throwaway social media account. Or maybe it's better if I do it on my main accounts?
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#14This made me think about creating a second profile on facebook, adding myself as a friend and liking whatever I post on my original - just to find out what "advertising value and quality" I create. Anyone got any ideas on how to automatise this?
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#15I'd love to be able to hit the reset button on my FB profile, undo all the profiling they've done on me and start again. Same thing for Google. What does it look like to be a vanilla user?
You can turn off "private results" in your google search preferences. https://www.google.com/preferences
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#16I was thinking of a way to destroy my facebook account because you can't actually delete it, this is pretty much it, like everything. Also I guess you could check-in every where at once all the time. I didn't think about the collateral damage it could cause to others, which is to bombard your "friend's feeds". This is also interesting because, well you can destory facebook in this manner. If enough people are peeing…
> because you can't actually delete it You can. At least, this seemed to work effectively for me: http://deletefacebook.com/
It's hidden from public view. They hold on to all of your data, which the page you linked says.
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#17it's possible to unlike everything you've ever like isn't it? I'll try that one day.
I'm sure their database doesn't just store a series of checkmarks, but rather a series of "User liked", "User unliked", etc.
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#18Nice. This is the post I needed to read, as I am on one-week fasting from Facebook (in fact, I am fasting from all kinds of email/group, facebook interactions). It is hard work, but much needed. I tend to believe, as humans in this age and time, we are losing our fundamental ability to delay gratification.
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#19I'm so put off by Facebook that I'm even put off by articles describing how one is put off by Facebook. Full disclosure - I closed my account 2 years ago. Did not miss it even for 10 seconds.
How do you know if someone deleted their Facebook account?
Don't worry, they'll tell you.
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#20Could there be a browser plugin to like and share everything as you wander through the web? That would be an interesting way to demonstrate tracking technologies.