Off-Facebook Activity • Hacker News Board

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#41

Post by romaaeterna » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:46 PM UTC

Here is a dirty GDPR secret: HDFS is an append-only filesystem. It's way too hard to delete things in big data projects, so they get disconnected instead.

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#42

Post by kd3 » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:46 PM UTC

I just recently stopped using Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp. Taking everyone close to me to Signal.

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#43

Post by nafey » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:47 PM UTC

la_barba wrote: post #26

high_derivative wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, but my point stands. In Facebook's case, there is absolutely zero reason to assume good intentions, give the benefit of the doubt, have general good-will, or believe its employees regarding privacy aims.

Which social media company would you believe regarding privacy?

Nothing such as absolute trust. It has to be a relative comparison. For me it is Apple, Google, Facebook in that order.

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#44

Post by Jerry2 » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:50 PM UTC

tobr wrote: post #16

givinguflac wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's my question as well, they aren't saying anything about shadow profiles. It seems like a ploy to get people to create accounts just to 'stop' tracking.

There’s a bunch of FB employees in the comments here, so I guess they will answer soon. EDIT: Any moment now, I suppose it might take a while to type up a thorough, elucidating answer.

> I guess they will answer soon

You're way too optimistic.

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#45

Post by _bxg1 » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:51 PM UTC

winternett wrote: post #39

Hey Guys, We here at Facebook realized you don't trust our apps, so we made another app that makes you think our apps are safe. Despite this just being another app within our portfolio of tracking tools. Please download and install, otherwise the other apps may not work eventually. Trust us. ಠ_ಠ

And just look at that lovely, friendly new shade of blue! There's no way a company using that color can mean any harm!

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#46

Post by wpietri » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:56 PM UTC

la_barba wrote: post #26

high_derivative wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, but my point stands. In Facebook's case, there is absolutely zero reason to assume good intentions, give the benefit of the doubt, have general good-will, or believe its employees regarding privacy aims.

Which social media company would you believe regarding privacy?

Any social media company whose business isn't renting your eyeballs to the highest bidder.

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#47

Post by mosselman » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:59 PM UTC

For Android, privacytools.io advises Blokada. It is an app that runs a sort of local pihole which enables it to block trackers in any app, not just a web browser. I don’t have an android phone myself, but I was very impressed when I tried it out on someone else’s.

Is there a similar for iOS that anyone is aware of?

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#48

Post by jforberg » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:59 PM UTC

pesenti wrote: post #2

This is the clear history feature that was announced a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16969325 . See also the engineering post that explains some of the challenges in implementing this: https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/off-facebook-...

> challenges

rm -rf /var/tracking_data/jforberg

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#49

Post by deadwing0 » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 5:03 PM UTC

moju wrote: post #11

moneil971 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s rolled out in Ireland, South Korea and Spain to start, more countries are coming soon.

Not working in Ireland at the moment. Reactivated my account to check.

They've got you right where they want you.. /s

Re: Off-Facebook Activity

#50

Post by yumraj » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 5:04 PM UTC

mattkevan wrote: post #12

Hmm, a clear history feature that does nothing of the sort. Sounds like Facebook! The product manager in charge said: “people were able to mentally connect that with how their browser controls work, where they can clear their history. We clearly state that … the information isn’t connected to your account.” [0] So, they deliberately designed it to make people think it works like a browser's clear history feature (whi…

> Such a bunch of weasels

I think it's more like a very big weasel and his cult-followers.