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Re: Logging out of Facbook is not enough

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Post by fgaaghf »

dchest wrote: post #13
jnorthrop wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the Firefox preferences go to the Privacy tab and select Use Custom Setting for History in the History section. From there you will see the check box to accept 3rd party cookies. Keep in mind this will prevent webmasters from using things like Google Analytics. Which you may want anyway but I thought it was worth mentioning.

Are you sure that setting "Accept cookies" to "off" will prevent third-party sites from reading cookies as well?

Based on the small amount of testing I did on couple versions of Firefox, disallowing third party cookies means only websites you are directly visiting can read or write any cookies.

So if you go to facebook.com and it sets some cookies and later you go to somerandomblog.com that has some images from facebook.com, Firefox will not send cookies to facebook.com, since you are not visiting it directly.

Now obviously if somerandomblog.com has javascript from facebook.com on it, then that javascript can read cookies from somerandomblog.com and do pretty much anything it wants with that page.

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Post by tintin »

codedivine wrote: post #3
dchest wrote: post #2

In Chrome 15 there's a flag (in about:flags) to disable third-party cookies from being read: Block all third-party cookies. When the option to block third-party cookies from being set is enabled, also block third-party cookies from being read. (Don't forget to activate blocking in Preferences > Under The Hood > Content Settings... > Cookies.)

Thanks for the tip! Anything equivalent for Firefox (and maybe IE and Opera too)?

Opera: Preferences (Ctrl+F12) -> Advanced -> Cookies -> Accept cookies only from the site I visit.

Re: Logging out of Facbook is not enough

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

I've been using Ghostery [1] to block Facebook tracking. While it's still a bit iffy in Chrome, it works quite satisfactorily in Firefox. I like it because it can be toggled on and off easily if you want to use your Facebook login on specific sites.

1. http://www.ghostery.com/

Re: Logging out of Facbook is not enough

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Post by sapphire »

suivix wrote: post #33

For Christ's sake, do we really need 4 or 5 anti-Facebook threads, especially when they haven't done anything malicious? This place is nearly as bad as Reddit. I am kind of upset about this.

Hi all.First things first;I'm a girl,totally dumb in hacking,technologies etc.Few days ago my FB page was fully COVERED with adverts that I was checed on the net few hours ago(like: french connection,michael korrs).The shocking thing was,it wasn't just the webpage of MK on my FB but the items what I've just checked as well.Blimey.Its scary,I hate it and its getting worse day by day.I have internet explorer browser(ok I also have Chrome,but I ve never used).My question is: how can I stop these adverts?can anyone explain to me step by step(yes I'm a dumb lol)what to do?Thank u so much:-)

Re: Logging out of Facbook is not enough

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Post by suivix »

sapphire wrote: post #124
suivix wrote: post #33

For Christ's sake, do we really need 4 or 5 anti-Facebook threads, especially when they haven't done anything malicious? This place is nearly as bad as Reddit. I am kind of upset about this.

Hi all.First things first;I'm a girl,totally dumb in hacking,technologies etc.Few days ago my FB page was fully COVERED with adverts that I was checed on the net few hours ago(like: french connection,michael korrs).The shocking thing was,it wasn't just the webpage of MK on my FB but the items what I've just checked as well.Blimey.Its scary,I hate it and its getting worse day by day.I have internet explorer browser(ok…

I don't really understand what point you're trying to make.
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