Comments on: What News Organizations Share With Facebook

By: Jak Facebook wysysa z nas informacje? | webios.pl

Jak Facebook wysysa z nas informacje? | webios.pl — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:15:36 +0000

[...] Fred Stutzman z University of North Carolina spenetrował drugie dno – a może pierwsze, polityki facebooka badając co się dzieje kiedy korzystamy z 15 największych serwisów informacyjnych w USA. “According to Nielsen, the 9 news organizations sharing information with Facebook account for over 177,161,000 monthly unique visitors. Granted, not all of these views will go to social plugin enabled pages, and not all visitors will be logged-in Facebook users. But with 400 million users, it is safe to assume that a substantial proportion of that information will go to Facebook. If you stay logged in to Facebook, it is increasingly likely that Facebook will know what news you read.” [...]

By: tendmedia.com

tendmedia.com — Thu, 20 May 2010 09:01:10 +0000

One final idea, at least on Windows, would be to run a browser using the ‘run as’ option. Run it as a different user than you normally log in with. I need to do some testing, but it is possible this scheme would confine cookies set by facebook to only this browser session, and they would spill over.
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By: Look, But Don’t Touch: My New Facebook Strategy « Scott Golder

Look, But Don’t Touch: My New Facebook Strategy « Scott Golder — Sun, 16 May 2010 19:21:12 +0000

[...] said about Facebook’s recent changes concerning the privacy of user data. Michael Zimmer and Fred Stutzman provide enlightening details and perspective, and concern is going “mainstream”: [...]

By: fred

fred — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:49:04 +0000

@ceo – Right, of course. I guess what I find problematic is that news organizations are willing to give my information away just for that upside. I guess news organizations aren’t in any financial shape to justify a privacy-enhancing decision in favor of a bottom-line decision.

@John – What I’m doing is just using a secondary browser for Facebook. A nice side benefit is that I’ve also broken myself of reflexive FB checking.

By: John Rees

John Rees — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:25:05 +0000

It seems like the Firefox TACO ( Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out) plugin has potential to fight this. I am looking at this plugin now.

I suppose one could always simply pick a browser to dedicate to facebook usage.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:11:38 +0000

They’re trading our data, which they still get to see and keep with their own cookies anyway, for free traffic. FB is a huge traffic driver, so a like causes your friends to click onto the same article.