Lol @ the Facebook army astro-turfing the comment section.
"But it's not nefarious..."
"But everybody else is doing it too..."
"It's not for surveillance, profiling and shadow profiling, pinky promise, trust us..."
Facebook confirms that it tracks mouse movements
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Re: Facebook confirms that it tracks mouse movements
#62This is beyond absurd. Why would you do that? What could go wrong? Is this a social network or spy agency?
Lots of websites you would not expect do this; it's not for spying on users but to improve the user experience. Being able to aggregate data or inspect individual sessions is a useful tool to learn how users navigate with a site. Keyboard keystrokes get captured too but the systems are intelligent enough to filter out passwords and payment details. I don't really like this form of monitoring either but I've seen it i…
> Keyboard keystrokes get captured too but the systems are intelligent enough to filter out passwords and payment details.
Sure. Except they are not.
Re: Facebook confirms that it tracks mouse movements
#63I'm not sure if this is actually how reCAPTCHA v2 works, but I've found moving my mouse and highlighting text immediately after ticking the box almost certainly passes the tests for human. I very rarely get asked to recognise images or pick X out of Y. When I don't do this, i.e., I don't move my mouse or highlight text on a page at random, I most certainly have to sit through a couple of screens of tests (I'm behind…
Oh, that's probably why i always have to go through those tests, reCAPTCHAv2 is not vimium-friendly.
Re: Facebook confirms that it tracks mouse movements
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Re: Facebook confirms that it tracks mouse movements
#65Lol @ the Facebook army astro-turfing the comment section. "But it's not nefarious..." "But everybody else is doing it too..." "It's not for surveillance, profiling and shadow profiling, pinky promise, trust us..."
yeah it's not like your mouse movements is a serious privacy issue
Re: Facebook confirms that it tracks mouse movements
#66This is beyond absurd. Why would you do that? What could go wrong? Is this a social network or spy agency?
Lots of websites you would not expect do this; it's not for spying on users but to improve the user experience. Being able to aggregate data or inspect individual sessions is a useful tool to learn how users navigate with a site. Keyboard keystrokes get captured too but the systems are intelligent enough to filter out passwords and payment details. I don't really like this form of monitoring either but I've seen it i…
> Keyboard keystrokes get captured too but the systems are intelligent enough to filter out passwords and payment details.
Citation needed. But i did not realize that before, so thank you very much for this information, i will desactivate js on every page with a password field from now on.
Re: Facebook confirms that it tracks mouse movements
#67Is there even anything left that Facebook doesn't track?
They claim they don’t record and track what you say. My spouse claims otherwise, saying she’s gotten hyper-specific advertising for medications that she’s discussed with her patients with the phone in the room.
Re: Facebook confirms that it tracks mouse movements
#68Lol @ the Facebook army astro-turfing the comment section. "But it's not nefarious..." "But everybody else is doing it too..." "It's not for surveillance, profiling and shadow profiling, pinky promise, trust us..."
yeah it's not like your mouse movements is a serious privacy issue
Your ignorance is astounding.
Re: Facebook confirms that it tracks mouse movements
#69""We collect information from and about the computers, phones, connected TVs and other web-connected devices users use that integrate with our Products, and we combine this information across different devices users use," Facebook wrote in the document adding that the collected information is used to "give better personalize the content (including ads), to measure whether they took an action in response to an ad we showed them on their phone"."
In other news, Google Tag Manager and crazyegg exist.
Re: Facebook confirms that it tracks mouse movements
#70I remember just few years ago there was an article here about a website tracking mouse movement to predict what the user will click and pre-loading the content in the background. It was seen as a huge improvement to the experience and the comments section was full of people saying how cool it is. But hey, now facebook is doing it, so it's suddenly the worst thing in the world?