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being so afraid, what's the point of using it?
I can't speak for raganwald, but in my case there are people who refuse to communicate using anything else.
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The latest Chrome dev channel release includes multiple profiles, where you can have multiple browser windows each running in their own sandbox. Pretty neat.
This is worth doing it again.
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What i am saying is that you are forced to re-login to prevent someone stealing your facebook account when he has access to your computer. given that most people stay logged into their gmail, i think this would actually be helpful
If you're logged into your e-mail, then someone can go to Facebook, and start password recovery, and then go to your e-mail and click the recovery link. If you're not logged in, then the OpenID authentication will require you to enter your e-mail. This isn't a weakness, just a convenience.
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>Not sure how they are doing this Did you happen to read the answers? Two specifically mention that Facebook requests authentication access (OpenID, I believe) the first time. It appears this user authorized Facebook at some point in the past and forgot about it. When I look at this page: https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens I can see that at some point in the past, I allowed Facebook access to my Goog…
Did you happen to read the comments on the answers? > Nope it's not that unfortunately. I tried it myself removing all linked accounts. The event above still happens.
Not sure how they are doing this, but I have gotten tired of having to play “whack-a-mole” with FB scraping private information from my browser in other ways, so what I have done is sandboxed it: I have a separate “Facebook” account on OS X, and I assume that anything I do on that account is shared with Facebook. I don’t log into Facebook for any reason on my normal user account, and I don’t log into anything else on…
Do you (and anyone else on this thread isolating Facebook to prevent tracking) do the same for Google?
Not sure how they are doing this, but I have gotten tired of having to play “whack-a-mole” with FB scraping private information from my browser in other ways, so what I have done is sandboxed it: I have a separate “Facebook” account on OS X, and I assume that anything I do on that account is shared with Facebook. I don’t log into Facebook for any reason on my normal user account, and I don’t log into anything else on…
With that preface, it's my impression right now that https://singly.com deserves a serious look from communities such as hacker news. So, I'm mentioning it here.
A little about them: they're led by the guy who created XMPP (aka Jabber). He's written a new distributed protocol based on JSON instead of XML ( http://www.telehash.org/ ). They've been joined by the guy who lead Canonical (publishers of Ubuntu). Like Wordpress, they are part free software project and part optional hosting company.
No, I am not affiliated with them. But I am really thinking that I would like to be...
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Google Chrome's "users" should let you segment all your cookies and browsing neatly. I use it to separate my various different Google identities and logins (so I can stay logged in with distinct accounts). (Google's multiple sign-in is rarely effective or convenient)
I have a dedicated Firefox profile for Facebook. This keeps all cookies separate. I haven't done a deep check as to whether this avoids all the Facebook problems, but it's a start.
Not flash "cookies". You only have one flash plugin that runs in every browser, and has one "cookie" store.
(Not that I know if/whether FB abuses this, I don't even have an FB account. Just sayin'.)
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I have a dedicated Firefox profile for Facebook. This keeps all cookies separate. I haven't done a deep check as to whether this avoids all the Facebook problems, but it's a start.
> This keeps all cookies separate Not flash "cookies". You only have one flash plugin that runs in every browser, and has one "cookie" store. (Not that I know if/whether FB abuses this, I don't even have an FB account. Just sayin'.)