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on Saturday July 08 2017, @12:31AM
from the friends-don't-let-friends-use-Facebook dept.
from the friends-don't-let-friends-use-Facebook dept.
The decision... gave Facebook a win in a lawsuit that accused the company of improperly tracking users' Internet usage... even after they had logged out of their Facebook accounts.
Facebook had promised that logging out would delete the cookies, the lawsuit charged.
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila ruled that plaintiffs in the lawsuit "have not established that they have a reasonable expectation of privacy".
Additionally, the decision said the plaintiffs failed to establish a "realistic economic harm or loss".
Darn it! As a member of the injured class, I was looking forward to winning a coupon for 1 month of free facebook use.
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday July 08 2017, @12:59AM (6 children)
Paranoia is one of the symptoms of my mental illness. It gets a lot worse when I know I'm being tracked.
I have economic losses due to the cost of mental hospitals, typically a thousand dollars a day.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday July 08 2017, @01:45AM (5 children)
Would a Paranoid person ever visit Facebook knowing that they track everything?
Would FOMO keep them signed in - just to know what people are saying about them?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday July 08 2017, @03:12AM (4 children)
many of my friends and family don't know any other way to communicate than facebook.
I ordered some Room Shocker deodorizer from Amazon for a friend who has no payment cards. For a couple weeks afterward, Facebook was displaying ads for Room Shocker.
That's just creepy.
I only buy from Amazon when I have no other choice. Most of the stuff I want I can find at NewEgg or direct from the manufacturer.
I am dead certain that Jeff Bezos is in league with Satan.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @03:50AM (1 child)
Not just Amazon, your bank probably has bugs reporting back to Google or Facebook too.
Just so that ads can be sent to you after the need has passed?
And the businesses where you are a customer sell you out so that Google and Facebook can present you with competitive ads?
Can't wait for the next tech crash when the return on advertising investment gets questioned.
(Score: 2) by TheB on Saturday July 08 2017, @10:40AM
Every bank account/credit card agreement I've seen in the last several years has allowed selling your purchase history.
Netflix recently changed their TOS to allow selling viewing history.
My university, against students wishes, sold access to student records.
Even when a company states in their TOS they will never share your info, courts have allowed whomever buys them to ignore any existing privacy agreement.
Any data you leak can be sold.
It's almost unavoidable that parts of our lives will become training sets for future AI.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @06:18AM (1 child)
This is a feature of the Amazon CDN, not Facebook.
Search for something potentially controversial at home on Amazon. Be amazed that 90% of the websites you then visit for the next couple of weeks will have Amazon banner ads for the things you were just casually looking at on Amazon.com.
And marvel at the wonders of advanced Big Data Analytics algorithms!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @03:55PM
does it use cookies or ip address or both or browser fingerprinting or all of the above in some manner of Voltron Effect(tm)?
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday July 08 2017, @02:14AM (10 children)
It's quite fruitless to sue etc to make them change their ways. Use technological means to screw them. It's easy to deny all connections to connect.facebook.net, www.connect.facebook.net, apps.facebook.com etc.. Even harsher filtering can be setup if one wish to do so.
And of course talk facebook down to friends etc.
Speaking of that. Anyone seen a piece of software to replace google maps seamlessly?
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Saturday July 08 2017, @03:01AM (2 children)
/etc/hosts is useful and all, but let's say FB is using some thing like www.kittens.com to collect data? And you don't know about it. What then?
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Saturday July 08 2017, @03:04AM
After posting, I thought I should check to see if kittens.com is a porn site, thankfully not but still they set a cookie just to see one lousy picture of a kitten. Dogs.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday July 08 2017, @03:52AM
Well you monitor outgoing connections. Another hard line method is simply to deny by default and then open access to hosts that are deemed good. And of course making use of greasemonkey style plugins and rewrite proxies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @03:41AM (1 child)
Don't know about seamless, but I use Galileo with openstreetmaps for mostly offline viewing.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday July 08 2017, @04:00AM
My train of thought was to make it so that when a random web page calls for google maps. That call is redirected to some other map service and everybody will be happy, except google ;)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @04:05AM (1 child)
http://www.openstreetmap.org/ [openstreetmap.org] seems to offer better information than Google Maps if you only care about pure maps, not aerial photos, and facts like "Foo is here" or "this is number 42 in Bar St". Google has been removing too much, or requiring a lot of zooming or explicit text search, clearly to know what you are looking for.
What we need is browser extensions (or better, background bots that impersonate browsers and we can keep running anywhere, anytime) to poisoning the databases. Instead of hidding you, they download tracking and provide plausible but useless information. Not totally random, but varied and slanted towards not common yet not totally niche things. So they don't know who among the 10 "actors" in your IP is real or fake. Maybe you still hide, and all is fake. That would be a great, yet huge, task for FOSS and activism and even mathematicians, as it would need to emulate mouse motions, browser rendering quirks, replicate navigation patterns and source trends to mimic and create a crafted noise (mathematicians work)... everything until the bot passes this kind of Turing test (FB analysis being the tester) and they can't know if pizza interest went from 10% to 30% in your area is real.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday July 08 2017, @11:54AM
Is free satellite images available anywhere? ie ones that can be republished? or is it time for a map-hub.kg ?
If browser were to share and cache satellite images between themselves it should not take too long before the whole earth is covered.
(Score: 2) by Geezer on Saturday July 08 2017, @05:51AM (2 children)
Ghostery. Kills/spoofs web bugs dead.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @04:02PM (1 child)
you might want to use disconnect instead. it's open source and not written by ad companies...
(Score: 2) by Geezer on Saturday July 08 2017, @04:17PM
Thanks, I will.