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Post by renaudg »

ams6110 wrote: post #127
renaudg wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technically true, but blocking all Facebook domains breaks comments on many sites and the login feature on a few crucial ones too. It also 100% breaks your social life, but maybe there's little of that left to disrupt anyway, amongst the typical target audience for these lists :P

It's actually the other way around. Normal people have managed their social lives without facebook for generations. It's only the recent crop or two who seem unable to do it.

No, "Normal people" who care about their social lives use whatever their friends use to get together at the time. Nowadays this is social networking sites, i.e. Facebook.

Re: Blocklist of all Facebook domains

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Post by chriswarbo »

ew wrote: post #150
chriswarbo wrote: post #146

I've been blocking facebook for years (nowhere near as comprehensive as this list though). Many of the most unfortunate problems with these sites are social in nature rather than technical. For example, no matter how much I plead with people not to, they keep uploading information about me to these type of sites, including photographs with timestamps and GPS location metadata, which they then "tag" my face as being m…

Who are you that you are so worried about this?

This question sounds a little too close to "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" to me, but in any case I think it's Facebook, attempting to build dossiers on billions of people for profit, who need to justify themselves; not me for wanting to remain undocumented.

As far as concrete reasons go, I've had to deal with far too much fallout from being incorrectly flagged by braindead processes trawling private databases which I didn't even know I was in. Since lots of these databases share information, but not necessarily updated corrections, I still run into the same mis-flagging every few years, across utilities, courts, credit agencies, banks, letting agents, etc.

As far as Facebook goes, being a citizen of the CCTV-riddled UK makes me acutely aware of the power, and potential abuse, that facial recognition technology can bring; having images of my face tagged and fed into a database does not sit well with me.

Since I don't use Facebook, I don't even get the meagre upside of whatever services they build on top of this database (some kind of gallery, I presume).

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