Beware Facebook adware!
Dec. 5th, 2007 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fingertrouble(via viridescence ) Yep Facebook is using a tracking system that even logs (or tries to log) what you do even when you're logged off via other sites using the system; it records all manner of info - rather worrying for a site which people entrust their personal info to. And the irony as you can't delete your FB profile is you can't easily opt out of it! Aargh!
More here, here and here - and how to block Facebook Beacon as I have done. I've just posted this link over at Facebook - let's see what happens ;-)
I'm really starting to get ambivalent about FB, I've locked down all the privacy options but the amount that FB is used by news agencies and governments and employers is VERY alarming. At some point I might discontinue my account - not before my Strummer remix LP though ;-)
viridescence ) Yep Facebook is using a tracking system that even logs (or tries to log) what you do even when you're logged off via other sites using the system; it records all manner of info - rather worrying for a site which people entrust their personal info to. And the irony as you can't delete your FB profile is you can't easily opt out of it! Aargh!More here, here and here - and how to block Facebook Beacon as I have done. I've just posted this link over at Facebook - let's see what happens ;-)
I'm really starting to get ambivalent about FB, I've locked down all the privacy options but the amount that FB is used by news agencies and governments and employers is VERY alarming. At some point I might discontinue my account - not before my Strummer remix LP though ;-)