Re:“I don't have a Facebook account and would like to reques...
by closeparen on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:41PM
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The “shadow profile” scandal has to do with Facebook’s records of your visits to other pages that embed a Like button.
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Re:“I don't have a Facebook account and would like to reques...
by erulabs on Sunday April 15, 2018 @08:52PM
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Well, right, the embed is hosting on facebook servers, and like I said, they collect access logs... So they are necessarily "collecting information on non-users" if they implement any sort of rate limiting based on fingerprinting for non-users... Which is more or less industry standard...
Not saying any of this is how things _should be_, it's just a little bizarre to make it seem like some sort of stealthy data harvesting scheme.