Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.

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Post by thom » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 11:06 AM UTC

pak wrote: post #82

thom wrote: post #63

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Okay, so long as we're not being incredibly creepy and paranoid then.

You know what's incredibly creepy? 3000 faceless people in Palo Alto know more about your distant friends than you will ever know. Depending on how much time you spend on the site, they probably also have profiled a sizable portion of your thoughts simply by tracking clicks and pageviews.

And yet this Christmas we've _still_ all had to manually make our Amazon wish lists, despite being watched round the clock by these crazy sociopaths who know exactly what we're all thinking.

Re: Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.

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Post by bad_user » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 11:22 AM UTC

kristiandupont wrote: post #29

cft wrote: post #22

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Let's argue Reductio ad absurdum. Why does not Google pop-up similar warnings when you click on its search results? -Because Google is dependent on the richness and abundance of third-party websites, for its search to be meaningful. What is the objective of Facebook? - To suck users into facebook.com, and sandbox them there. Similarly, the smaller objective of Facebook Social plugins is to lift the userbase from thir…

Google scans for malicious sites as well. The difference is of course, that on FB people share links whereas Google can just decide not to include a link in the results and the user will never know.

Google has been criticized about banning less websites than they should - their preference is clearly towards false negatives, whereas Facebook's is clearly towards false positives.

Re: Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.

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Post by mishlawyer » Wed, Nov 23, 2011, 1:12 AM UTC

lbrandy wrote: post #13

I work on the team that generated the warning that seems to be the crux of this post. I am pretty convinced that it is a bug. His central theme, though, is a bit misguided. I don't understand why 1) using opengraph, or 2) using a like button implies facebook should trust your link and whitelist it. Even pages with those integrations can be malicious. In this actual case though, the notification link (generated from t…

we've been a big user of facebook but now we're all cancelling our accounts. we used it to organise trips and meet people but now this is just all becoming too suspicious.